Alaric
In 396AD, the Visigoths led by Alaric plundered Athens and settled in Northern Greece.
This ended quickly with the division of Rome into East and West, which subjected the
Visigoths to attacks from both empires. In 401AD, the Visigoths invaded Italy. As the
Visigoths laid siege to different areas of Italy and exacted enormous tributes, Alaric's
army began to grow, taking in Germanic mercenaries from Roman armies and Roman slaves who
saw the Visigoths as their liberators. Finally in 410AD, Alaric took Rome and the capital
was turned over to Visigoth warriors for their traditional three days of plunder. The
Visigoths believed that a German could not become a Roman Emperor so they began conquests
in Spain and Gaul for the Romans and settled amongst Roman citizens in these areas.
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