He called himself flagellum Dei, the scourge of God, and even today, 1,500 years after his blood-drenched death, his name remains a byword for brutality. Ancient artists placed great stress on his inhumanity, depicting him with goatish beard and devil’s horns. Then as now, he seemed the epitome of an Asian steppe nomad: ugly, squat [...]
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Nice things to say about Attila the Hun
Posted: 3 February 2012 in Asia, C5th, Historians and historiography, Hun Empire, War4
