Gibbon's Decline and Fall

[Allan Balliett]

While we are on this topic, is anyone familiar with the Roman history work
of Edward Watts? His work was recommended to me, in the context of 'what
did the gods mean to Roman citizens,' as the best way to get an
understanding of mental life of everyday Romans. The books are not readily
available, so Im wondering if anyone has experience with Edward Watts' work.

Thanks

Allan in WV just waiting for my man

https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/watts.html

He is currently preparing a monograph tracing the Romanization and
de-Romanization of the Mediterranean world between 96 and 850 AD (The Rise
and Fall of the Roman Nation, [Oxford University Press, forthcoming])

Books

City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, University of
California Press, 2006.

Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and
Christian Communities, University of California Press, 2010.

The Final Pagan Generation, University of California Press, 2015.

Hypatia: An Ordinary Life, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We do history differently now, but it's wonderful sonorous rolling
> late-Augustan prose that works just fine as literature, as Ian says. You'll
> hear lots of Mason & Dixon in the elaborately balanced sentences.
>
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am thinking of reading it. Does anyone have advice on whether this is a
>> good idea, or about which edition to read?
>>
>
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