The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire: (Volume One (1) The History of the Empire from A.D. 180 to A.D. 395)

Gibbon, Edward

ISBN 10: 0394604016 / ISBN 13: 9780394604015

Published by Modern Library Giant, NY, 1977

About this Item

no date given (circa 1977?); dj w/clipped price, in mylar; solid brown c w/gilt spine titles; 956 clean, unmarked pages; "This edition was prepared by Oliphant Smeaton, who reprinted all of Gibbon's own notes and added to them the material set off in brackets and signed with initials O.S. ". Seller Inventory # 116374a

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire: (...

Publisher: Modern Library Giant, NY

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has always maintained its initial appeal to both the general public and scholars alike. Its sheer scale is daunting, encompassing over a millennium of history, covering not merely the Western Empire from the days of the early emperors to its extinction in AD 476, but also the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another thousand years until the Turks vanquished it in 1453. But Gibbon's style, part historical fact and part literature, is enticing, and the sheer honesty of the man, who endeavours to be scrupulously impartial in his presentation, endears him to the reader. In this recording, David Timson incorporates the most salient of Gibbon's footnotes. InVolume I (chapters I - XV), Gibbon opens by setting the scene with the Empire as it stood in the time of Augustus (d. AD 14) before praising the time of the Antonines (AD 98 - 180). The death of Marcus Aurelius and the accession of Commodus and his successors ushers in turbulent and dangerous times which were only occasionally marked by a wise and temperate ruler. The volume ends in AD 324, with Constantine the Great becoming undisputed Roman emperor, uniting both the East and Western Empires.

Synopsis:

An extensive history of the Roman Empire, from the third to the fifteenth century, delineating the personalities and events that determined Rome's eras of splendor and degradation.