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380–425

Olympiodorus of Thebes (Greek: Ὀλυμπιόδωρος ὁ Θηβαῖος; born c. 380, fl. c. 412–425 AD) was a Roman historian, poet, philosopher and diplomat of the early fifth century. He produced a History in twenty-two volumes, written in Greek, dedicated to the Emperor Theodosius II, detailing events in the Western Roman Empire between 407 and 425.

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Only a few days after the statues were removed, the entire Gothic people overran Thrace, and only a little later Hunnic and Sarmatian peoples invaded both Illyricum and Thrace. For the holy site lay between Thrace and Illyricum, and based on the number of statues, it seems they had been consecrated to ward off the whole of the barbaricum.

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