New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2023. In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of thewarrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans.