22 Quotes by Peter Heather

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

Having sliced Odovacar in half in early spring 493, Theoderic ruled his Italian kingdom for the next thirty-three years, until his own death on 30 August 526.

An emphasis on reading individual texts with a view to understanding the ideological visions of the world that underlie them has also had a dramatic impact. This type of interpretation requires historians to treat ancient authors, not as sources of fact, but rather like second-hand-car salesmen whom they would do well to approach with a healthy caution.