Series: Book 1 in the 罗马帝国兴衰史 series
Tags: [ZDC:LSDL, ZDC:YWSJ, CNTY:UK]
Summary:
The
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written
by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six
volumes, covering the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus
Aurelius, from 180 to 1453, concluding in 1590. They take as
their material the behavior and decisions that led to the decay
and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West,
offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. This
work stands as a major literary achievement of the 18th century
because it was adopted as a model for the methodologies of
modern historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first
modern historian of Ancient Rome.
