Heraclianus
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Heraclianus was a provincial governor and a usurper of the Western Roman Empire opposed to Emperor Honorius, who had originally brought him to power. Heraclianus helped put down a rebellion by Priscus
Coin minted by Priscus Attalus.
The Byzantine Emperor Honorius, Jean-Paul Laurens, 1880.
Alaric I
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Alaric I was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410. He rose to leadership of the Goths who came to occupy Moesia—territory acquired a couple of decades earlier by a combined force of Goths
Heraclianus
…that Heraclianus was the successor of Bathanarius, brother-in-law of Stilicho, put to death by Honorius. In 409, with the help of the Visigoths of King Alaric I, Priscus Attalus rebelled against Honorius, whose seat of power was in Ravenna, and set up his own court in Rome. Heraclianus remained loyal to Honorius…
A 20th-century depiction of Alaric parading through Athens after conquering the city in 395
Imaginative portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4. Band, Frankfurt a.M., 1836
Alaric (central figure, bearded) rests after capturing Athens, as imagined by Ludwig Thiersch in 1879
The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410 by J.-N. Sylvestre (1890)