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The End of the World as They Knew It
Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
… forces and a native of Thrace, was sent from Antioch, the Syrian capital, on a diplomatic mission. Traina argues … his diplomatic mission, he was entrusted with escorting the Syrian monk Nestorius to Constantinople. The emperor there, … the eastern and Aegean elements of his empire. From Syria, Flavius and Nestorius took the so-called pilgrim's …