The Fall of Rome
Chapter 1
Story Time, Episode 3. Goes with Story of the World, Volume 2, chapters 1 and 4. About 4 minutes. Voices were made with ElevenLabs. The music box is played live by your browser. Turn Voices off to read the captions together at your own pace; each line still moves on by itself.
Where the facts come from
- Goes with Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Peace Hill Press), chapters 1 and 4. The story here is our own telling.
- The split of the empire, Alaric's sack of Rome in 410, Rome's soldiers leaving Britain, and the Vandal sack of 455: Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History (Macmillan, 2005).
- Augustine's reply to the sack of Rome: Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (written 413–426).
- Scripture: Hebrews 13:14, King James Version.
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