The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West by Adrian Murdoch

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"Although I know their names well, I won?t mention them at all?they only lived a short while?and as a result accomplished nothing worth mentioning." So wrote the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea of the last emperors of Rome. His opinion has been shared by many people ever since, and as a result, the last decade of the Western Empire has been largely ignored outside of academic circles. It is therefore a breath of fresh air to come across a title like ?The Last Roman?. For in this book, Adrian Murdoch has attempted to write the first popular history of Romulus Augustulus ? a difficult job considering, as Murdoch tells us:

"It is not known when he was born ; it is not known when he died; it is not known where he was buried. No speeches, pronouncements or epigrams have survived. There is no hint of his likes or dislikes; there is not hint of sexuality, conventional or otherwise, to add a frision of historical excitement; there is not even any particularly gory violence."...

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