Quotes by Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

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Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices o — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinne — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Never base motivation or fear, entirely. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Reality confounds image. — Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians