The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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Within the maximum paintings of heritage within the English language, Edward Gibbon compresses 13 turbulent centuries right into a gripping epic narrative. it truly is background within the grand eighteenth-century demeanour, a well-researched drama charged with perception, irony, and incisive personality research. In stylish prose, Gibbon provides either the vast development of occasions and the numerous revealing element. He delves into faith, politics, sexuality, and social mores with equivalent authority and aplomb. whereas next examine printed minor authentic error concerning the early Empire, Gibbon's daring imaginative and prescient, witty descriptions of an enormous solid of characters, and readiness to exhibit his personal ideals and prejudices lead to an magnificent paintings of heritage and literature, right now powerfully clever and drastically unique. in line with David Womersley's definitive three-volume Penguin Classics version of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , this abridgement includes whole chapters from all 3 volumes, associated by way of prolonged bridging passages, vividly seize the fashion, the argument, and the structure of the full paintings.

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The former of these was a narrow and rocky coast; the latter was a territory scarcely superior to Wales, either in fertility or extent. * Yet Phoenicia and Palestine will forever live in the memory of mankind; since America, as well as Europe, has received letters from the one, and religion from the other. A sandy desert, alike destitute of wood and water, skirts along the doubtful confine of Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. The wandering life of the Arabs was inseparably connected with their independence; and wherever, on some spots less barren than the rest, they ventured to for many settled habitations, they soon became subjects to the Roman empire.

The Nile flows down the country, above five hundred miles from the tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean, and marks on either side of the extent of fertility by the measure of its inundations. Cyrene, situate towards the west, and along the sea-coast, was first a Greek colony, afterwards a province of Egypt, and is now lost in the desert of Barca. * From Cyrene to the ocean, the coast of Africa extends above fifteen hundred miles; yet so closely is it pressed between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, or sandy desert, that its breadth seldom exceeds fourscore or a hundred miles.

The name of Asia Minor is attributed with some propriety to the peninsula, which, confined betwixt the Euxine and the Mediterranean, advances from the Euphrates towards Europe. The most extensive and flourishing district, westward of Mount Taurus and the River Halys, was dignified by the Romans with the exclusive title of Asia. The jurisdiction of that province extended over the ancient monarchies of Troy, Lydia, and Phrygia, the maritime countries of the Pamphylians, Lycians, and Carians, and the Grecian colonies of Ionia, which equalled in arts, though not in arms, the glory of their parent.

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