Few figures in late Roman history are as controversial as Flavius Ricimer. Accused of betraying Majorian, poisoning emperors, and sacking Rome in 472, he has long been cast as the villain of the ...

In 472 AD, Rome was besieged, taken, and plundered - not by foreign invaders, but by a Roman general. Flavius Ricimer’s war against Emperor Anthemius ended in one of the least-known sacks of Rome.