ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In 395, following the death of Theodosius I, Alaric and his Balkan Goths invaded Greece, where they sacked Piraeus (the port of Athens) and destroyed Corinth, Megara, Argos, and Sparta.

Detailed explanation-2: -After forcing the Romans from much of the European continent, the Goths governed a large swath of territory, from present-day Germany to the Danube and Don rivers in Eastern Europe, and from the Black Sea in the south to the Baltic Sea in the north.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Goths, one of the Germanic tribes, had invaded the Roman Empire on and off since 238.

Detailed explanation-4: -Led by King Berig, they crossed the sea and landed in Europe. Several generations later, as their population expanded, the Goths then travelled on southward under King Filimer and settled in the fertile country of Scythia (roughly modern Ukraine), near to the Black Sea.