Series: Book 3 in the 罗马帝国兴衰史 series
Tags: [ZDC:LSDL, ZDC:YWSJ, CNTY:UK]
Summary:
In
this third of volume, readers will discover the rules of
Jovian, Valentinian, Valens, Gratian, Theodosius, Arcadius,
Honorius, Eutropius, and Valentinian III; wars in Germany,
Britain, Africa, and Persia; the Gothic War in 376; the
conversion of Rome; the revolt of the Goths; the numerous
sackings of Rome by the Goths and Charles V; revolutions in
Gaul and Spain; the life of Saint John Chrysostom; the life of
Empress Eudocia; the progress of the Vandals in Africa; and the
invasion of the Roman Empire by Attila the Hun. Edward
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses
thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot
through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis.
Sceptical about Christianity, sympathetic to the barbarian
invaders and the Byzantine Empire, constantly aware of how
political leaders often achieve the exact opposite of what they
intend.
