Gibbon's Decline and Fall

[Charles Albert]

I heard this in a history seminar and never forgot it.


"Another damned fat book, Mr. Gibbon? Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh Mr.
Gibbon?"

   - variously attributed to King George III or Henry, Duke of Gloucester,
   upon receiving a volume of Gibbon's book.



love,


cfa

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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