Stilicho - Fictional Treatments

Fictional Treatments

Stilicho has appeared in a number of fictional works, both as protagonist and as antagonist.

• Stilicho is the main protagonist in the 1901 novel Stilicho by Felix Dahn (a part of the Kleine Romane aus der Völkerwanderung series), where he is portrayed as a loyal and honest general.
• Stilicho makes a brief but significant appearance in Keith Robert's novel The Boat of Fate (1971)
• In the early novels of Jack Whyte's Arthurian series, he had a notable connection to the Britannicus family, whom Whyte ties to the legends of Merlin, Arthur, and Camelot.
• In the first of William Napier's Attila trilogy (2005). He is killed on the orders of Princess Galla Placida, who suspects him of plotting with young Attila, their royal hostage.
• In Wallace Breem's novel Eagle in the Snow as an ancillary character.
• In Barbarian Invasion, a modification of the strategy game Rome: Total War, Stilicho is a western Roman general.
• In the 2000 TV mini-series Attila, Powers Boothe, who plays another historical figure, Aetius, takes on some of Stilicho's story.
• Stilicho appears in the X-O Manowar #1 (2012) where he surprise attacks Aric and the Visigoths on Easter Sunday. This is shown to be the Battle of Pollentia where his army drove the Visigoths to retreat.