The Concept Of The Huns And Its Evolution In The Perception In Late Antiquity

The Hun has been a concept about a dark and strange people’s name in civilized world.Since the vision of the late classical writers in the field about Huns appeared at beginning of this time,it has been deeply branded with the imprint of the ancient Scythians.Whether the name of the Huns and their images on earth had its roots?Have the Goths who were conquered or been the fugitive by Huns brought its name and the wave of panic?or classical writers according to the ears with the names of ancient Scythian tribes created a civilized name for the Huns on the later ancient world?How did the Huns’early images show?Have their images showed a degree of evolution in the course of its subsequent historical development?What are the changes in the ideas and perspectives of later ancient portrayer about Huns?Whether the Huns in the concept of image in different times have inherited at some degree by the earlier ages?What are the characteristics of the social and historical background and the observer’s position reflected behind these inheritance?Finally,is there a possibility that some nomadic people living on the edge of the European world were likely to have its trace since time immemorial,even could the Huns been the descendants of these indigenous nomadics which had appeared in works of ancient writers?These problems arise the yearn for knowledge,then to reshape a clear three-dimensional,with the history and the changes of the concept in the late classical Huns’ images based,we might understand the early history of this race,and their relationship with Rome civilization,then,it could provide a concept of reference for today’s reserch on Huns.For more than a century,communication and conflict between the Huns and the civilized world have become more and more frequently,so that people could have more opportunities to come to this strange people and tried to understand their true appearance.The images of the Huns in the late classical writers’views were so experienced to be engraved with the evolution of concept by branding in different age.From the background point of view,here came the Huns,which heralded a new era full of crisis and challenge to Rome.In a similar Domino effect in the Huns acts as a chain reaction and the Rome civilization-Western Empire destruction causing role,which have been affecting the coming times after more than a century.On the other hand,the Huns have made different influence in the great migration in different time nodes on the era and its role as challenger were not the same.It also made the Huns in the concept of people in those times to place the images with the inheritance and evolution based on the position of the special times.These traces have been eventually retained in the late classical literature and presented a complicated image for today’s classical researchers.Therefore,the article trys to talk about the origin of the Huns、the Huns in the concept of images formings and its evolution in late antiquity.In those points above,commencing to discuss this topic with three aspects.