Editing Amalasuintha (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Nuremberg chronicles f 143r 3.jpg|thumb|upright|''Amalasiuntha regina'' – woodcut from the [[Nuremberg Chronicle]] (1493)]]

=== Arts ===
The life of Amalasuintha was made the subject of a [[tragedy]], the first play written by the young [[Carlo Goldoni]] and presented at [[Milan]] in 1733.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vitiello |first1=Massimiliano |title=Amalasuintha The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World |date=2017 |isbn=9780812249477 |page=1 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |url=https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/toc/15727_toc.html |access-date=7 September 2020}}</ref>

Romanian poet [[George Coșbuc]] wrote a poem entitled ''Regina Ostrogoților (The Queen of the Ostrogoths)'' in which Amalasuintha (as Amalasunda) speaks to Theodahad (mentioned as  Teodat in the poem) shortly before he kills her.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poezii Romanesti |url=http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poezii/regina.php |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=www.romanianvoice.com |language=Romanian}}{{Self-published source|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{Self-published source|date=August 2022}}

Amalasuintha is portrayed by [[Honor Blackman]] in the 1968 film ''[[Kampf um Rom]]''. Her character is suffocated to death in a locked bath house.''<ref>{{Citation |title=The Last Roman (1968) - IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063174/fullcredits |access-date=8 March 2020}}{{unreliable source?|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2022}}''

=== Eponymy ===
[[Asteroid]] [[650 Amalasuntha]] is named in her honour.<ref name="Schmadel2012">{{Citation | first1    = Lutz D. | last1     = Schmadel| title     = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names| publisher = Springer| page      = 63| year      = 2012| isbn      = 978-3642297182| url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=aeAg1X7afOoC&pg=PA63| postscript= .}}</ref> ''Ranunculus amalasuinthae'' is a microspecies of ''[[Ranunculus auricomus]]'' known from [[Pomerania]], among others from a site situated not far from the cemetery of Goths near [[Grzybnica, Koszalin County|Grzybnica]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Halamski |first=Adam T. |date=2024 |title=Contribution à l'étude des renoncules tête d'or (Ranunculus auricomus aggr.) de la Poméranie polonaise. Trois espèces nouvelles des environs de Darłowo et Sławno |journal=Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon |volume=93 |issue=7–8 |pages=169–205 |issn=2554-5280}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ranunculus amalasuinthae {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://beta.ipni.org/n/77347918-1 |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=beta.ipni.org}}</ref>