Der römisch-gotische Friedensschluss im Jahre 382
Roman-Gothian peace treaty signed in the year 382

Summary/Abstract: Dealing with the course of events which led to the peace treaty signed by Theodosius and the Goths on October 3rd 382, the author seeks to call attention to the possibilities raised by the available sources but so far left unexamined and indicates some possible interpretations, which, however, can not be proved with no more certainty than the prevailing view. It is first of all a question of the peace treaty offered by Gratianus not only to the Therving group governed by Fritigern but also to the Greuthungi, Huns and Alans of Alatheus and Saphrax’ group shortly after the crushing defeat suffered by the Roman army in the Battle of Adrianople, that means as early as 378, of the attack of Alatheus and Saphrax’ group on Athanaric, who was staying with his Thervingi in the Carpathian area, before the attack of the same group on Pannonia in the spring of 380, and of the possibility, that the peace treaty signed by Theodosius and the Goths in 382 was concluded not only by the Therving group of Fritigern but also by the Greuthungi, Huns and Alans of Alatheus and Saphrax’ group.

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