

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 22 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/06/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Roman History
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 22 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/06/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Roman History
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), an English historian and member of Parliament, had little formal education. He went to Oxford, but was forced to leave when he converted to Roman Catholicism. His family then sent him to Lausanne, where he was reconverted to Protestantism. His most important work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Let's be very clear about one thing: if you write English prose, and if you read a lot and care about English prose, you should read Gibbon. His sentences are perfect. Each is carefully weighted, pulling the reader through like a kind of perpetual motion machine; the syntax and the content are perfe......more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (Volume One) is a classic, definitive, heavy, credible account of this period of antiquity. Initially, I was wary of embarking on this six-volume epic as Gibbon was strutting his stuff all the way back in the 1700’s. For this reason, I expect......more
It speaks to the genius of Gibbon, and the grandeur of this work, that there are no historians or social scientists who call themselves ‘Gibbonians’. There are Marxists, Freudians, Foucaultians; there are postcolonial theorists, gender theorists, post-structuralist theorists; there are positivists,......more
Every Empire eventually falls. Given the largest modern Empire is the United States, it might behoove Americans to read this. The epic series is a must read for historical buffs. The premise that Christianity played a large role in the collapse of the Roman Empire might not go over well, but the lack......more
One of the monuments of the Enlightenment and one of the greatest works of history in English, Gibbon's iconic Decline and Fall is a pleasure to read and a treasure chest of information. While it is true that it was written before the end of the 18th century and there have been 1000s of archeologica......more