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Excerpt from Literature and Civilization From 476 to 600 A. D: Introductory to the Study of Justinian's Institutes Theodoric the Great, the leader of the Ostrogoths, with the sanction of the court at Constantinople, overthrew the Herulian Odoacer, the conqueror of the Western Empire in A. D. 476, (a contemporary of the Eastern emperor, Zeno) and founded the kingdom of Italy in 493. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.