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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The - Volume III
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The - Volume III

Written by Edward Gibbon

Narrated by David Timson

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has always maintained its initial appeal to both the general public and scholars of subsequent ages. The sheer scale of the subject is daunting, encompassing a millennium and a half of history, covering not merely the Western Roman Empire from the days of the early emperors to its extinction in A.D. 476, but also the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire, which lasted for another thousand years until it was vanquished by the Turks in 1453. But Gibbon’s style, part historical scholar, part sensational story-teller, part historical fact and part literature, is enticing, and the sheer honesty of the man, who, writing in the age of reason, endeavours to be scrupulously impartial in his presentation, endears him to the reader. It is meticulously planned, and charts the fall and rise of Western mankind from the dust of the Empire into the modern nations of Europe.
The work consists of 71 chapters, 2,136 paragraphs, some one million and a half words, and close to 8,000 footnotes: a magnum opus indeed by anyone’s standards.
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Release dateDec 1, 2013
ISBN9781843797234
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The - Volume III
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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon; (8 May – 16 January 1794) was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion. (Wikipedia)

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    This volume deals with the final persecutions of the Christians before they took over, as it were. The reason I give four rather than five stars is because of Gibbons rather loquacious language and his often blase generalizations, as clarified by the editor and others. We leave the Roman Empire, such as it was, with the Goths and Vandals, and the Huns schlepping all over the place. It is interesting what Gibbons is going to do with the other three volumes.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Excellent description of the historic fall of the Roman Empire which took Gibbon about 20 years to write.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    2021-07-08 - Third book read! Masterpiece, no doubts. amazing how I found out that 2 books i read once, that I thought to be originals of some kind, were written - clearly - after the author read this 3rd book of Edward Gibbon! No doubts, a massive source of western inspiration!