El ataque de Alarico a la Urbs Aeterna: una medida de presión que terminó en catástrofe para los romanos
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Cuando Alarico penetró en Italia, su
objetivo primordial no era apoderarse de
Roma. El saqueo de la antigua capital imperial
y los asedios que previamente sufrió
la ciudad pueden ser equiparados como
medidas de presión a las que recurrió Alarico
con la intención de forzar al gobierno
imperial a firmar un trazado de paz.En el
mismo sentido, puede ser interpretado el
matrimonio de Ataúlfo y Gala Placidia.
Pero, aunque ninguno de estos “instrumentos
de presión” resultaron operativos,
a la larga, fueron las circunstancias que
rodearon al saqueo de Roma las que apor-
taron mayores beneficios a los godos, tanto
en el terreno material, a nivel económico
y humano, como en el plano ideológico
When Alaric invaded Italy, his primordial objective was not to take Rome. The sacking of the old imperial capital and the sieges that he city underwent previously can be seen as measures of pressure that Alaric resorted to with the idea of forcing the imperial government to sign a peace treaty. This same interpretation can be made of the marriage of Ataulf and Galla Placidia. But although none of the “instruments of pressure” turned out to be operative, in the long run it was the circumstances surrounding the sacking of Rome that brought the greatest benefits to the Goths, both in the material sense, at he economic and human level, and on an ideological plane
When Alaric invaded Italy, his primordial objective was not to take Rome. The sacking of the old imperial capital and the sieges that he city underwent previously can be seen as measures of pressure that Alaric resorted to with the idea of forcing the imperial government to sign a peace treaty. This same interpretation can be made of the marriage of Ataulf and Galla Placidia. But although none of the “instruments of pressure” turned out to be operative, in the long run it was the circumstances surrounding the sacking of Rome that brought the greatest benefits to the Goths, both in the material sense, at he economic and human level, and on an ideological plane







