The Bertrand Lançon conference is a perfect illustration of historian’s difficulties in dealing with the bias of sources. Stilicon is a camelelon, wearing a multitude of faces distorted by writers with specific objectives. Some, such as Claudien, make a laudatory portrait of this figure of Roman high aristocratie, a ‘New Scipion’. On the other hand, Comte Marcellinus presents it as a miserable, a ‘semi-barbare’ from the vandal people, pai...