Goths
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Goths is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 06, 2021 and August 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Goths sacked the city of Rome”; “Blame the Huns and the Goths”. It most often appears alongside Africa, France, Greece.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 06, 2021
- Last seen: August 01, 2025
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- Africa (2 shared issues)
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- France (2 shared issues)
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- Greece (2 shared issues)
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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- Milan (2 shared issues)
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- Rhine (2 shared issues)
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- Rome (2 shared issues)
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- Spain (2 shared issues)
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- Wikipedia (2 shared issues)
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- 320 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 476 AD (1 shared issues)
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- African ceramics (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Within a generation, much of the wealth of great senators like Symmachus was lost or slipped into the Christian church. Goths sacked the city of Rome. Vandals conquered wealthy north Africa and the great city of Carthage. Over the next hundred years, western Europe and north Africa completed their transformation from a classical pagan society to a medieval Christian one. It was not only a political revolution. "It was in this world that the conglomerate of ideas that medieval persons took for granted was first formed." This period rivals the Enlightenment as the most dramatic transformation of the West.
We have no histories from contemporaries of Alexander the Great, just inscriptions, fragments quoted in later histories, et cetera. There were histories written, to be clear! We know they were written! We even know his general Ptolemy wrote one claiming to be his half-brother! We just don't have them any more because all existing copies have been lost or destroyed. Blame the Huns and the Goths, I suppose.