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Attila the Hun remains to this day a byword for savagery and destruction. His is one of the few names from antiquity that still prompt instant recognition, putting him alongside the likes of Alexander, Caesar, Cleopatra and Nero. Attila has become the barbarian of the ancient world.

— Adrian Goldsworthy The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower (2009)

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