Index
Anicii, senatorial family of 125, 142
annona 39, 50, 53, 61, 64, 68, 91, 185, 188, 255,
393–94
Anonymous Cosmographer 253
Anonymus Valesianus 20, 32, 55, 63, 121, 127,
238, 240, 243–45, 247, 311, 321, 380, 507,
510, 520
Anthemius, Emperor 303
Anthimus of Constantinople 445
Aosta 397, 454–55, 459, 462, 464, 473
apocrisarius 430
apparitores 66–67
Apulia 52, 133, 268, 284, 384, 400, 412
aqueducts 242–45, 357
Aquileia 189, 241, 246, 248, 251, 456–57,
481–84
Arator 133, 140, 142, 338–39
Arcadius, Emperor 154, 160, 300
Arcadius, Column of 214
archaeology 189–91, 270–77, 396–99, 431
architecture, see art
Ardabur 518
Ariadne 353
Arians/Arianism, see Christianity
Arigern 87
Aristotle 330–31, 333
Arius 510, 512, 520
Arles 88, 237, 240, 454, 455, 457–58, 463,
482–83
art 350–86
architecture 357–84; see also
Mausoleum of Theoderic
churches 359–65, 384
palaces 357–59, 365–78
portraiture 352–57
Asia Minor 255
Asinarius 93
Aspar 518
Asti 484
Astuna 358
Athalaric 31, 33, 35, 37, 56, 76, 82, 84, 108,
130, 139, 150, 163, 165–66, 218, 222, 285,
297, 300–02, 306–07, 321, 353, 358, 435,
437, 483, 513
Athanasius 488, 495, 511Aachen 352
Abano 237, 357
Abruzzo 484, 486
Acacian schism, see Christianity
Acacius 443
Adila 465, 467
administration, see Ostrogoths
Adrianople 195, 458
adventus 121, 136, 442
Aestuna 237
Aetius 6, 124, 300
African Red Slip ware 268
Agapitus, Pope 133, 367, 431 434, 494
Agnellus 212, 312, 359, 361, 365, 370, 375–76,
382, 518
agri deserti 181
agriculture, see rural life
Alamanni 74, 80, 93, 176
Alans 209
Alaric II 29, 279, 454, 455
Alba 484
Albenga 484
Albina 489
Albinus 31, 138, 144
Alexandria 332
Amal, royal family 10, 29–40, 56–57, 60,
67, 130, 140–41, 144, 180, 208, 296–312,
428, 433. See also names of individual
family members and Mausoleum of
Theoderic
Amalaberga 303
Amalafrida 33, 302–03
Amalaric 29, 35, 85, 88, 92, 302
Amalasuentha 8, 30, 33–36, 54, 84, 92,
140–41, 218, 221, 223, 248, 296–312, 321,
353, 359
Ambrose 227, 305, 339, 341, 458, 461, 465,
471, 481, 489, 491, 511
Ammianus Marcellinus 208
Ampelius 91
Anastasius, Emperor 20, 29–30, 48, 55, 85,
131, 148, 444, 523
Anastasius II, Pope 433, 435, 520
Andromachus 522
Anicia Juliana 303