After Rome
John B. Watkins
This chapter focuses on interdynastic marriage during the first Christian centuries, focusing three texts: Virgil's <italic>Aeneid</italic>, Jordanes's <italic>Getica</italic>, and Paul Deacon's <italic>Historia langobardorum</italic>. The <italic>Aeneid</italic> celebrated union between Aeneas Lavinia, thus, relatively primitive Latins more urbane Trojans. In Ostrogothic ethnic historian Jordanes recounts his people's immigration from Scandinavia to Mediterranean as an increasing assimilation Roman culture. <italic>Getica</italic> is about barbarian Goths Byzantines. concludes with a reading of langobardorum</italic>, whose contrast Rosamund Theudelinda voiced ambivalence toward Carolingian conquest Lombardy traumatic diplomacy that seems have accompanied it.
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