AETIUS, Roman General

c.396–454, Roman general. At first unfriendly to Valentinian III, he later made his peace with Valentinian's mother, Galla Placidia, and was given a command in Gaul. An ambitious general, he was embroiled in difficulties with his rival Boniface, who defeated him near Rimini in 432. Aetius went briefly into exile among the Huns but returned in 433 and rose to be the chief ruler of the Western Empire. He defeated the Germans in Gaul, then crowned his career by commanding (451) Roman and Visigothic troops in the repulse of Attila and the Huns in the battle near the modern Châlons-en-Champagne—a battle generally said to have saved the West. Valentinian, presumably jealous of Aetius' success, had him murdered.

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Britannia, the Roman Conquest and Occupation of Britain
Book by George Patrick Welch; Wesleyan University Press, 1963
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
...settlers and their neighbors, the Roman Gauls, persevering, and thereby...his horde of Huns invaded Gaul, Aetius, the Roman general and three times consul, after...eagles. From the joint levies Aetius was able to fashion an army which...
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A Short History of Roman Law
Book by Olga Tellegen-Couperus; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Roman Law--History
...efficiently that the Roman empire survived in its...but a West-Roman general called Aetius was able to prevent this...phase of the (East-) Roman history is also called...Justinian, helped by his generals Belisarius and Narses...of the former West-Roman empire, namely Italy...
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The End of Roman Britain
Book by Michael E. Jones; Cornell University Press, 1996
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons, Great Britain--History--Invasions, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D, Romans--Great Britain--History, Rome--History--Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th Centuries
...with the Huns prevented the Romans from aiding the Britons, and...probable alteration of Agitius to Aetius, can be traced back to Bedes...appealed unsuccessfully to Aetius in his third counsulship...51. On Bedes sources in general see Sawyer, From Roman Britain to Norman England...
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Roman Britain and the English Settlements
Book by R. G. Collingwood, J. N. L. Myres; Biblo and Tannen, 1990
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Anglo Saxon Period, 449-1066, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
...Britons appealed to Aetius, complaining that...of fifth-century Roman military practice...force of the best Roman infantry, and ever since then the Roman practice had been...should be a cavalry general. Even without that...
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The Roman Occupation of Britain
Book by George MacDonald, F. Haverfield; The Clarendon Press, 1924
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Roman Period, B.C. 55-A.D. 449
On the other hand, the general tenor of the Saxon invasion...Gildas to the third consulship of Aetius. Indeed it supplies an additional...notion of an independent, un-Roman Britain. Turn now to the ensuing...this was really the date of the Roman evacuation: see supra, p...
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journal articles on: Aetius Roman General  - 6 results

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Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman Imperial Character
Journal article by John E. Curran Jr.; Comparative Drama, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Fletcher, John (English playwright)--Criticism and interpretation, Massinger, Philip--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Rollo, Duke of Normandy (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...dissimulation. The indispensable general Aetius refutes as subversive the...attention the way Shakespeares Romans, or for that matter his medieval...always have. But if the Roman emperors of Fletcher and Massinger...209; Martin Butler, "The Romans in Britain: The Roman Actor and the Early Stuart...
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Romans in Tucson? the Story of an Archaeological Hoax
Journal article by Don Burgess; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 51, 2009
Subjects: Archaeological forgeries--Analysis, Forgery of antiquities--Analysis, Historical inaccuracies--Analysis, History--Analysis, History--Errors, inventions, etc., Tucson, Arizona--History
...archaeologists, and the general public. The Taung...Israelites, Trojans, Romans, Etruscans, Greeks...the idea of a Roman colony in Tucson...Albion; Romani, Aetius; Gaul, Seine respectively...Cummings agree in general with those derived...artifacts were of Roman origin. Bents reply...slaughtered three Roman legions, some twenty thousand Romans, led by Publius...
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The Cult of St. Anianus in the Carolingian Period
Journal article by Satoshi Tada; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 91, 2005
Subjects: Anianus, Saint, Catholicism, Religious history, Saints
...control of the Gallo-Romans" in the times of Gregory...prisoners. He asked a Roman general, Agripinus, to release...of Aries and asked the Roman general Aetius to drive out the Huns...and he proposed that Aetius come there with his army...
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Erotic Dreams and Nightmares from Antiquity to the Present *
Journal article by Charles Stewart; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects: Anthropological research--Evaluation, Dreams--Research, Nightmares--Research, Repression (Psychology)--Research, Sex research--Psychological aspects
...but we are well into the Roman imperial period and Christianity...bearers, 523-54), or the general imagery of Euripides Bacchae...concupiscence and original sin, the general term for demonic interference...increased rather than decreased general sexual excitation. In the...
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The Ancient Origins of Cognitive Therapy: the Reemergence of Stoicism
Journal article by Robert W. Montgomery; Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Vol. 7, 1993
...played by the Stoics within Roman society. The Stoic acceptance...confused with those of an earlier Roman school, the Cynics. The Cynics...between the philosophies of these Roman schools. The early Stoics had...is for individuals a kind of general view of themselves" (p. 66...
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The Battle of Chalons: In Confronting the Huns under Attila, the Man Known as "The Last Roman" Led the Remnant Forces of Western Civilization against the Rampaging Barbarian Horde
Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 23, July 9, 2007
Subjects: Aetius, Flavius--History, Battle of Chalons, 451--History, Goths (Germanic people)--History, Huns--History
...restless Goths and their Roman overlords led eventually...annihilated most of the Roman military, including...North Africa from the Romans, destroying a large portion of the Roman Mediterranean fleet in...in those years was the general Flavius Aetius, sometime aspirant to...
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The Survival of the Eastern Roman Empire
Magazine article by Stephen Williams; History Today, November 1998
Subjects: Istanbul, Turkey--History, Rome (Ancient)--History, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. (Empire)
...years of turmoil the general Constantius stepped into...only the most nominal Roman overlordship. Constantius...war. In set battle the Romans could usually win, but...Persia would conquer the Roman provinces, as that they...new treaty involving Roman payments. At the same...invade westward. Here Aetius, with all his carefully...
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Friends, Romans or Countrymen? Barbarians in the Empire
Magazine article by Stephen Williams, Gerard Friell; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
Subjects: Barbarian invasions of Rome--History, Germanic tribes--History, Rome (Ancient)--History, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. (Empire)
...had finally prized out of the Romans as a result of their victory...having to be enacted within Roman territory. This step could...policy of conciliation between Romans and barbarians, wooing their nobles with the benefits of |Roman-ness and co-operation...married to the loyal Vandal general, Stilicho. Many responded...
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The Once & Future Christendom
Magazine article by James P. Pinkerton; American Conservative, Vol. 6, September 10, 2007
Subjects: Christian Islamic relations, Europe, Islam, Muslims, Novels, Social conditions & trends, Terrorism, Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973), Writers
...Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor would bring forth a...Constantine was the first Christian Roman Emperor, although he concerned...you should meet together in a general council . . . and to know you...Or Aetius, the last noble Roman, who defeated Attila the Hun...


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newspaper articles on: Aetius Roman General  - 4 results

 
 
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Who's the Biggest Who? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2005
...hopes of domination. Roman expansion into Germany...the legions under Roman General Varus into a trap...Forest. All 50,000 Romans were killed or enslaved...In 451, Flavius Aetius, military commander of the western Roman empire, joined German...
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Our Leaders Are Queuing to Prove Their Virtue by Denouncing the Vile BNP. but It's They Who Are to Blame for Its Rise; THE COLUMN
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 19, 2009
...Attila the Huns rampage through Gaul was halted by the Roman general Flavius Aetius in 451AD. Never has a TV show attracted more feverish...Warsi, is vulnerable to the charge that in the 2005 General Election she campaigned in white areas of Dewsbury...
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Our Leaders Are Queuing to Prove Their Virtue by Denouncing the Vile BNP. but It's They Who Are to Blame for Its Rise
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 21, 2009
...Attila the Huns rampage through Gaul was halted by the Roman general Flavius Aetius in 451AD. N e v e r h a s a TV s h o w attracted...Warsi, is vulnerable to the charge that in the 2005 General Election she campaigned in white areas of Dewsbury...
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It's Genghis 1 -- Attila 0; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 11, 2011
...to his mens saddles. Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus...crumbling outposts of the Roman empire, but when met...Having ravaged through Roman Macedonia and Thrace, Attila faced the eastern Romans in several indecisive...the armies of Flavius Aetius and Theodoric. The Hun...system. In the 1943 general election ten of its candiadates...


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encyclopedia articles on: Aetius Roman General  - 6 results

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Aetius , Roman General
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AETIUS , Roman general c.396 454, Roman general. At first...who defeated him near Rimini in 432. Aetius went briefly into exile among the Huns...Valentinian, presumably jealous of Aetius success, had him murdered...
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Valentinian III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...VALENTINIAN III 419 55, Roman emperor of the West...but from 433 to 454 the general Aetius was the actual ruler in...under Gaiseric ; by 442 Aetius was obliged to acknowledge...disturbed by the war between Aetius and Boniface, by general...
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Boniface
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BONIFACE bon fas, d. 432, Roman general. He defended (413) Marseilles against the...Italy by Placidia to assist her against the general Aetius . He defeated (432) Aetius but died of a wound received in the battle...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the island of Corsica. Roman Catholicism is by far...by a locally elected general council, with one councilor...of France before the Roman conquest (1st cent...country was known to the Romans as Gaul . It was inhabited...following five centuries of Roman rule Gaul accepted Latin...against each other. Thus Aetius defeated (a.d. 451...
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Huns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...migrations that destroyed the Roman Empire and changed the face of...tributary to him, and he was long in Roman pay as Roman general in chief. When Rome refused...Gaul and were defeated (451) by Aetius , but they ravaged Italy before...
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