The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Vol.1

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Название: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

Издательство: Phillips, Sampson

Автор: Gibbon, Edward

Год: 1854

Количество страниц: 662

Формат: PDF

Размер: 65 mb

Язык: English

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.

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I. THE EXTENT AND MILITARY FORCE OF THE EMPIRE, IN T1IE AGE OP THE ANTONINES.

II. OF THE UNION AND INTERNAL PROSPERITY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES.

III. OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OP THB

ANTONINE8.

IV. CRUELTY, TOLLIES, AND MURDER OP COMMODUS. ELECTION OF FERTINAX. HIS ATTEMPTS TO REFORM THE STATE. HIS ASSASSIN ATION BY THE PRJETORIAN GUARDS.

V. PUBLIC SALE OF THE EMPIRE TO DIDIU8 JULIANUS BY THE PRAETO RIAN GUARDS. CLODIUS ALBINUS IN BRITAIN, PESCENNIUS NIGER IN SYRIA, AND SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS IN PANNONIA, DECLARE AGAINST THE MURDERERS OF PERTINAX. CIVIL WARS AND VICTORY OF SEVE RUS OVER HIS THREE RIVALS. RELAXATION OF DISCIPLINE. NEW MAXIMS OF GOVERNMENT.

VI. THE DEATH OP SEVERUS. TYRANNY OF CARACALLA. USURPATION OF

MACRINUS. FOLLIES OF ELAGABALUS. VIRTUES OF ALEXANDER SEVERUS. LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE ARMY. GENERAL STATE OF THE ROMAN FINANCES.

VII. THE ELEVATION AND TYRANNY OP MAXIMIN. REBELLION IN AFRICA

AND ITALY, UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE SENATE. CIVIL WARS AND SEDITIONS. VIOLENT DEATHS OF MAXIMIN AND HIS SON, OF MAXIMUS AND BALBINUS, AND OF THE THREE GORDIANS. USURPATION AND SECULAR GAMES OF PHILIP.

VIII. OF THE STATE OF PERSIA AFTER THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY

IX. THE STATE OP GERMANY TILL THE INVASION" OP THE BARBARIANS, Df

THE TIME OP THE EMPEROR DECIUSBY ARTAXERXES.

X. THE EMPERORS DECIUS, GALLUS, JEMILIANUS, VALERIAN, AND OALLIB-

NUS. THE GENERAL IRRUPTION OF THE BARBARIANS. THE THIRTY TYRANTS.

XI. fcEIGN OF CLAUDIUS. DEFEAT OF THE GOTHS. VICTORIES, TRIUMPH,

AND DEATH OF AURELIAN.

XII. CONDUCT OF THE ARMY AND SENATE AFTER, THE DEATH OF AURELIAN

REIGNS OF TACITUS, PROBUS, CARUS, AND HIS SONS.

XIII.THE REIGN OP DIOCLETIAN AND HIS THREE ASSOCIATES, MAXIMIAN,

GALERIUS, AND CONSTANTIUS. GENERAL REESTABLISHMENT OF ORDER AND TRANQUILLITY. THE PERSIAN WAR, VICTORY, AND TRIUMPH. THE NEW PORM OF ADMINISTRATION. ABDICATION AND RETIREMENT OF DIOCLETIAN AND MAXIMIAN.

XIV. TROUBLES AFTER THE ABDICATION OF DIOCLETIAN. DBA .-r OF CONSTANTIUS. ELEVATION OF CONSTANTINE AND MAXENTIUS. SIX EMPERORS AT THE SAME TIME. DEATH OF MAXIMIAN AND GALERZUS. VICTORIES OF CONSTAXTINE OVER MAXENTIUS AND LICINIUS. BWION OF THE EMPIRE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF CONSTANTINE.

XV. THE PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND THE SENTIMENTS, MANNERS, NUMBERS, AND CONDITION OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS.

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