Series: Book 2 in the 罗马帝国兴衰史 series
Tags: [ZDC:LSDL, ZDC:YWSJ, CNTY:UK]
Summary:
This
is Volume 2 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, 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.
