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.
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