![]() ![]() In part, Gibbon’s work has endured because it speaks to questions that modern powers have on their minds. ![]() Published first in 1776, just as the US declared its independence from England, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall looked to offer an empirical explanation for why Ancient Rome fell as a power, and he generally pointed to a decline in civic virtue among its citizenry (why bother fighting the Empire’s wars when you can get mercenaries to do it?) and to the rise of Christianity (why worry about Rome when a better life, an eternal afterlife, awaits you?). But don’t worry they’re eventually coming. With a runtime of almost 20 hours, this audiobook - click to access individual files or the full zip file - will make it so that you’re not looking for the remaining volumes any time soon. ![]() Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - It’s a major work of the Enlightenment, a book that shaped how we moderns write history (and, for that matter, how we aspire to write in the English language), and it’s now available as a free podcast thanks to Librivox. ![]()
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