The Decline Fall of the Roman Empir..., Edward Gibbon
The Decline Fall of the Roman Empir..., Edward Gibbon
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The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Part 2

Author: Edward Gibbon

Narrator: Philip Madoc, and Neville Jason

Abridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 05/01/2000

Synopsis

Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces. This six-disc recording covers the final three volumes of Gibbon’s work, tracing ten centuries in the life of the eastern half of the empire, whose capital city was Constantinople. Among the many figures who stride across Gibbon’s stage here are the emperor Justinian I, a noble statesman and successful warrior, brought low by his lascivious wife, the former prostitute Theodora; the murdering Basil I, a peasant who nonetheless proved himself a worthy figure upon which to drape the purple; and the final emperor of all, Constantine XI, who died on the battlements of Constantinople in 1453, valiantly fighting a losing battle to prevent the Turks from gaining a city they had craved for centuries. It is still the work that sets the standard for all histories of the period.

About Edward Gibbon

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy

As I’ve already written two panegyric reviews of Gibbon, I’ll keep this one short. In fact, I only want to say something briefly about prose style. Anyone who peruses a few books on writing will notice some similarities. We are advised to write short sentences, to use simple words, and generally to......more

Goodreads review by Justin

Ah, the paradoxes of contemporary publishing: Gibbon is generally divided into three books, with two 'volumes' per book; here we have volumes three and four. That makes perfectly good sense, on the one hand, since six books would be very expensive and two books would each be unwieldy. However, due t......more

Goodreads review by Arnis

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Goodreads review by Yair

Luego de la ciclópea y a la vez, mágica y estimulante labor de leer las 1.178 páginas que componen este volumen II de la "Decadencia y caída del Imperio Romano" de su señoría Edward Gibbon, es importante resaltar que la presente reseña sólo se ocupará de la formidable y soberbia edición de Atalanta......more

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