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 冯佚涵 2016-04-08 10:12:46
这本小书，怎么说呢，注释可取。 我估计没人看~
1 有用 摸小鱼儿 2010-04-22 12:15:23
gibbon英語太好
0 有用 不裁 2009-11-08 13:03:43
语言稍难了些，幸亏注释还不错
0 有用 白清羽 2020-11-23 21:21:31
七次十字军东征 最离奇的是第四次 君士坦丁堡的第一次陷落是在同教中人手里 光复首都之后的拜占庭基本沦为君士坦丁堡大公国了
0 有用 白清羽 2020-11-23 21:21:31
七次十字军东征 最离奇的是第四次 君士坦丁堡的第一次陷落是在同教中人手里 光复首都之后的拜占庭基本沦为君士坦丁堡大公国了
1 有用 冯佚涵 2016-04-08 10:12:46
这本小书，怎么说呢，注释可取。 我估计没人看~
1 有用 摸小鱼儿 2010-04-22 12:15:23
gibbon英語太好
0 有用 不裁 2009-11-08 13:03:43
语言稍难了些，幸亏注释还不错