Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
The Big E
By Mark Lilla
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
by Susan Neiman
Princeton University Press, 358 pp., $29.95
In the summer of 410 the Goths streamed into the city of Rome and sacked it for three days. According to modern historians, this event was not nearly as significant as once thought, given that the center of the Empire had already moved east and the barbarians had been chipping away at its territories and infiltrating its administrative apparatus for some time. Rome did not 'fall' in 410, or so it now seems to us.
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