Editing Roderic (section)

==In legend and literature==
[[File:Cronica rey rodrigo.jpg|thumb|upright|Titlepage of ''La Crónica del rey don Rodrigo'' (''The Chronicle of the Lord King Roderic'') published by Juan Ferrer (1549), recounting the legendary deeds of Roderic]]{{No sources|section|date=September 2024}}
According to a legend that was for centuries treated as historical fact, Roderic seduced or raped the daughter of [[Count Julian]], known in late accounts as [[Florinda la Cava]]. The tale of romance and treachery has inspired many works.

According to the ''[[Legend of Nazaré]]'', Roderic acquired the stature of Our Lady of Nazaré during the [[Battle of Guadalete]].

Roderic life is alluded in Nights 272 and 273 of the ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]''. In the story, a king opens a mysterious door in his castle that was locked and sealed shut by the previous kings. The king discovers paintings of Muslim soldiers in the room and a note saying that the city of Labtayt will fall to the soldiers in the paintings if the room is ever opened. The king is later killed by [[Tariq ibn Ziyad]]. The details coincide with the fall of Toledo.

Roderic is a central figure in the English playwright [[William Rowley]]'s tragedy ''[[All's Lost by Lust]]'', which portrays him as a rapist usurped by Count Julian and the Moors.

The Scottish writer [[Walter Scott]] and the English writers [[Walter Savage Landor]] and [[Robert Southey]] handled the legends associated with those events poetically: Scott in "[[The Vision of Don Roderick]]" in 1811; Landor in his tragedy ''Count Julian'' in 1812; and Southey in "[[Roderick the Last of the Goths]]", in 1814.

The American writer [[Washington Irving]] retold the legends in his ''Legends of the Conquest of Spain'' (1835), mostly written while living in that country. These consist of "Legend of Don Roderick", "Legend of the Subjugation of Spain", and "Legend of Count Julian and His Family".

Roderic has been mentioned in [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s short story "[[Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent]]" by the name of "Don Rodrigo, the Goth" as a sinner that shares a common vice with "a man of impure life, and a brazen face".

In [[Alexander Pushkin]]'s unfinished poem Rodrik ([[Russian language|Russian]] Родрик) Roderic survives the last battle, becomes a hermit and gets a promise of victory from Heaven.

Roderic has been the subject of two [[opera]]s: ''[[Rodrigo (opera)|Rodrigo]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]] and ''[[Don Rodrigo]]'' by [[Alberto Ginastera]].

Roderic appears as a minor character in the first half of Portuguese early [[Romanticism (literature)|Romantic]] writer [[Alexandre Herculano]]'s novel ''[[Eurico, o Presbítero]]'' ("Euric, the Presbyter", 1844).

Roderic's story is told the British [[West End musical]] ''[[La Cava (musical)|La Cava]]'' (2000).