In the greatest work of history in the English language, Edward Gibbon compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a gripping epic narrative. It is history in the grand eighteenth-century manner, a well-researched drama charged with insight, irony, and incisive character analysis. In elegant prose, Gibbon presents both the broad pattern of events and the significant revealing ...
In the greatest work of history in the English language, Edward Gibbon compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a gripping epic narrative. It is history in the grand eighteenth-century manner, a well-researched drama charged with insight, irony, and incisive character analysis. In elegant prose, Gibbon presents both the broad pattern of events and the significant revealing detail. He delves into religion, politics, sexuality, and social mores with equal authority and aplomb. While subsequent research revealed minor factual errors about the early Empire, Gibbon's bold vision, witty descriptions of a vast cast of characters, and readiness to display his own beliefs and prejudices result in an astonishing work of history and literature, at once powerfully intelligent and enormously entertaining.
Based on David Womersley's definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , this abridgement contains complete chapters from all three volumes, linked by extended bridging passages, vividly capture the style, the argument, and the architecture of the whole work.
WHENEVER Tacitus indulges himself in those beautiful episodes, in which he relates some domestic transaction of the Germans or of the Parthians, his principal object is to relieve the attention of the reader from a uniform scene of vice and misery. From the reign of Augustus to the time of Alexander Severus, the enemies of Rome were in her bosom; the tyrants, and the soldiers; and her prosperity had a very distant and feeble interest in the revolutions that might happen beyond the Rhine and the Euphrates. But when the military order had levelled, in wild anarchy, the power of the prince, the laws of the senate, and even the discipline of the camp, the barbarians of the north and of the east, who had long hovered on the frontier, boldly attacked the provinces of a declining monarchy. Their ... (查看原文)
为何做此事？ 无论从文学性, 还是从学术性的角度来看, 爱德华•吉本的《罗马帝国衰亡史》(The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)都可称为是西方著作中的经典, 也是目前几乎所有欧洲历史的爱好者和学者都无法绕过的史学巨著。 该书完成于18世纪末。那些...
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1 有用 kouseki 2011-12-11 21:54:58
我尽量。。。。。。
0 有用 徐虎 2011-08-15 17:52:18
116页只看了。。。实在看不下去了。。。太难了。。。
0 有用 茶亦添香 书可增识 2007-01-16 08:50:11
早听说吉本写的罗马帝国衰亡史相当的不错，国内译本属于缩译本。看看怎么样。。。。。。。。。。。看了好久阿，还是要好好学习
4 有用 sayhello 2014-09-20 21:46:23
以我们现在的翻译风气预测，50年内也出不了比较精彩的全译本。
4 有用 sayhello 2014-09-20 21:46:23
以我们现在的翻译风气预测，50年内也出不了比较精彩的全译本。
1 有用 kouseki 2011-12-11 21:54:58
我尽量。。。。。。
0 有用 徐虎 2011-08-15 17:52:18
116页只看了。。。实在看不下去了。。。太难了。。。
0 有用 茶亦添香 书可增识 2007-01-16 08:50:11
早听说吉本写的罗马帝国衰亡史相当的不错，国内译本属于缩译本。看看怎么样。。。。。。。。。。。看了好久阿，还是要好好学习