| Description |
1 audio file (approximately 8 hr.) : digital. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Performer |
Read by Philip Madoc with Neville Jason. |
| Note |
Abridged. |
| Form |
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
| Summary |
Gibbon's The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts the gradual collapse of the Roman rule from Augustus (23BC-AD14) to the first of the Barbarian kings, Odoacer (476-490 AD). It is a remarkable account, with the extravagant corruption and depravity of emperors such as Commodus, Caracalla and Elagabalus contrasted by the towering work of Constantine, Julian and other remarkable men. It remains the standard work of scholarship on the subject two hundred years after it was written; yet equally important, in its sheer accessibility, it is an unforgettable story. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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Byzantine Empire -- History.
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| Added Author |
Madoc, Philip.
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Jason, Neville.
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| Added Title |
History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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| Other Form: |
Original 9789629547141 (OCoLC)ocn317494252 |
| ISBN |
9789629547141 |
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9629547147 |
| Music No. |
Z10009964 Recorded Books |
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