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Failure of Empire Conservation of buildings & building materials there was one sure-fire wayFailure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a. d. 364 78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians,