The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, D.M. Low

The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #1

Edward Gibbon, D.M. Low

123 hours, 31 minutes • first pub 1776 (editions)

fiction classics history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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According to Gibbon, the Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions because of lost of civic virtue. They'd become weak, outsourcing defence to barbarian mercenaries, who became so numerous & ingrained that they took over. Romans had become effe...

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