Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Author

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Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

‘If a man were called to fix a period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.’

Edward Gibbon (1737–94), English historian and MP, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Mr Gibbon ended his book by concluding the Romans became effeminate and succumbed to the big butch barbarians. Not everyone agrees, but it was a theory that was adopted by school books for 250 years.

Did you know – Edward Gibbon

Gibbon once compared his finishing a book to giving birth to a baby. They are both the result of labour, I suppose.

Eddie said that the Church’s histories of the Roman Empire exaggerated the number of martyrs who died for the religion. This did not go down well with the Church, who called him a ‘paganist’.

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