Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on the rise of Gothic power and the challenge it presented to Rome. It covers the movement of the Goths toward the west, pushed by the unrelenting drive of the Huns to their east. It then details the Goths’ attempts to enter the Roman Empire on peaceful terms and how this process went catastrophically awry. When military hostilities commenced, the majority of the Eastern Empire’s forces were preoccupied with the Persian threat. The emperor, Valens, was forced to patch up a hasty peace and march to meet a Gothic army rampaging through the northern Balkans. Valens then attacked before the western army could join him, leading his forces to near annihilation at the Battle of Adrianople. The rest of the chapter deals with Rome’s attempts to limit the damage brought about by the loss of the east’s field army.
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