Ostrogoths

Germanic group from the Baltic Sea to the north of the Black sea that entered the late Roman Empire in the 4th century.

Arianism

Directed to settle in Italy as a counter to Odoacer.

Theodoric the Great ruled Italy.

Boethius - Cassiodorus - Amalasuntha - Narses

Theodoric's afterlife in Epic poetry.

Conquered by Byzantines under the general Belisarius in the reign of Justinian.