Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The - Volume III
Written by Edward Gibbon
Narrated by David Timson
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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.
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 stars4/5This 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 stars4/5Excellent description of the historic fall of the Roman Empire which took Gibbon about 20 years to write.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/52021-07-08 - 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!