The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) · Chapter 141
Sack of Rome by Alaric
In 410 CE, the Visigothic king Alaric captured and sacked Rome, the first time the city had fallen to a foreign enemy in eight centuries, shocking the Roman world and symbolizing the empire's terminal decline.
Outcome
The sack accelerated the collapse of Roman authority in the West, prompted mass flight of elites, and forced the empire to negotiate with barbarian leaders as equals.
Who was there
Alaric- Honorius