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The Day Rome Fell: 4 September 476 CE

The Day Rome Fell: 4 September 476 CE

Paperback

Series: Days That Made History

Ancient Rome

ISBN13: 9798264820335
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On a small September morning in 476 CE a teenage emperor took off his purple and handed it to a soldier. No thunderbolt, no sack of the city-just a quiet exchange that later writers turned into an apocalypse. The Day Rome Fell reads that moment closely: the boy on the throne, the practical bargains that followed, and the surprising durability of law, Senate, and ritual when the title of emperor stopped being decisive. Think of rust-slow, inevitable, altering surface and mechanism alike-and you have the book's guiding image.

This is not a catalogue of ruins. It is a close, clear lens on how political forms unravel while institutions and ideas persist, how the East kept calling itself Rome, and how memory made a fall into a story. Lively, concise, and sharply argumentative, JD Arden's account will change how you imagine endings-and what survives them.

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