 This request for military aid can be viewed as a preamble to the thousand year literary cycle, which evolved the island's legendary Arthurian heritage, the most significant part of what is now collectively referred to as the Matter of Britain.Aetius is the antagonist in a scenario named "Battle of the Catalaunian Fields" in the "Attila the Hun" campaign of the game "".Aetius is the protagonist of several operas titled "Ezio" (Italian for "Aetius"), as well as Verdi's opera "Attila".