Gibbon's Decline and Fall

[Erik T. Burns]

I listened to the whole thing, unabridged, read by Charlton Griffin. It's
126 hours long, took a couple of months of commuting. I just kind of let it
flow over me without thinking too much about it, and found it very
entertaining. He mentions booty a lot. My favorite was "the slender booty
of the Saracens."

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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