The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I by Edward GIBBON Part 1/2

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I by Edward GIBBON (1737 - 1794)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History

Read by: Kirsten Ferreri, Chris Chapman, Sibella Denton, Christie Nowak, Gesine, ontheroad, Jim Mowatt, krithiga, Robin Cotter, Julian Jamison, J. M. Smallheer, Lizzie Driver, Måns Broo, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Justin Brett, Cori Samuel in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction and Prefaces
00:14:21 - 01 - Chapter I: Part 1
00:30:35 - 02 - Chapter I: Part 2
00:53:46 - 03 - Chapter I: Part 3
01:28:10 - 04 - Chapter II: Part 1
01:41:05 - 05 - Chapter II: Part 2
01:58:42 - 06 - Chapter II: Part 3
02:14:25 - 07 - Chapter II: Part 4
02:31:48 - 08 - Chapter III: Part 1
02:55:30 - 09 - Chapter III: Part 2
03:20:09 - 10 - Chapter IV: Part 1
03:41:07 - 11 - Chapter IV: Part 2
04:05:20 - 12 - Chapter V: Part 1
04:31:08 - 13 - Chapter V: Part 2
05:00:45 - 14 - Chapter VI: Part 1
05:17:56 - 15 - Chapter VI: Part 2
05:40:40 - 16 - Chapter VI: Part 3
06:01:43 - 17 - Chapter VI: Part 4
06:25:15 - 18 - Chapter VII: Part 1
06:59:01 - 19 - Chapter VII: Part 2
07:27:32 - 20 - Chapter VII: Part 3
07:32:40 - 21 - Chapter VIII: Part 1
07:43:34 - 22 - Chapter VIII: Part 2
08:11:49 - 23 - Chapter IX: Part 1 & 2
08:40:01 - 24 - Chapter IX: Part 3
09:05:20 - 25 - Chapter X: Part 1
09:22:17 - 26 - Chapter X: Part 2
09:45:09 - 27 - Chapter X: Part 3

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published as quartos, a common publishing practice of the time.The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell.Gibbon is sometimes called the first 'modern historian of ancient Rome.' By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon's work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. (Summary from Wikipedia)

[alvincash]

For many years, I have meant to read this book. I decided to look it up, so that I could listen while doing other tasks. Thank you for providing this excellent reading.

[daniellarge]

Thanks to all the readers. Every single one did justice to the wonderful text. I'm so grateful for your efforts on our, the listeners, behalf.

[dlb]

Thank you! Especially for the great list of bookmarks for each chapter.

[bawbtherevelator]

I also thank you as this man wrote. Me? In year 83, I've always admired Gibbon but never made the time to read him. I'm a little embarrassed by good friends who should know better assuming I have but was too embarrassed to admit it. I wasn't. Really! Maybe this will finally relieve me. All I need to do now is live long enough to finish the damn book. :)

[thelikebutton]

What an articulate and attractive voice, thank you for this.

[Malikin]

1:21:45 I was bamboozled for a second when he said "now"

[onenewworldmonkey]

As with all LibriVox audiobooks, when the chapter is read by someone with an Indian accent I fast forward past it because I cannot understand them. It used to bother me until I understood more about English being Germanic and how I don't struggle with any of those accents. Now I just fast forward past the Indians.

[trevorvallo]

This is what I listen to when I need to fix my insomnia.

[interestingtimes]

Ignore my comment just taking notes for myself
chapter 1 prat 1 -Agustus didn't want to expand the empire past it's current borders. Britain, Caledonian in the north of the island. love of independence of the locals.
- Claudius expanded into Britain was the exception of departure from agustes policy.
-'Trajan had recieved the education of a soldier and posesed the talents of a general'25;50 'first exploits of Trajan was agents the dacians'
-decebalus was the dacian king

- war agenst dacia lasted 5 years
-Bender road, Moldova
- invaded parthia anexed mesopethamia rome lost the gains after trajans death
chapter 1 prart 2 terminus roman god borders and protector of boundary stones refused to yield to Jupiter this was interpreted as roman boundaries would never recede 'terminus' yielded to the emperor Hadrian'
-withdrawal from eastern conquests made euphrasies the border
-roman solders where supposed to be citizens
-45;00-50;00 talks about the compasision of leagons
- in the republic the horsemen where composed of young Nobel men
chapter 1 part 3 -700yarrd camps for 20, 000 romans
-pertorian gaurd and generals got the best tents
-solduirs brought cookingequipment and building supply
-Sling/ archer in front
-axileary where the first line
-cavelry on flanks
-legon behind
-engins in back(seage equipment)
-about 6000 in leagon up to 12000 with axillary
-leagons where embanked on rivers and not in cities
-2 in lower 3 in upper germany, 1 in Raetia, 1 in noricum, 4 in
Pannonia, 3 in Moesia, 2 in dacia
-in the east 6 leagons in syria, 2 in cappadocia
- Egypt africa and spain had 1 leagon each
-2 permanet fleats in italy(revena, besenium in naples)
1:08:04

[MyYTaccountName]

Out of curiosity, is the information in this series of books outdated because it’s so old? Thanks

[sarahs]

Whats the first book of r9man empire i should read?

[aisforamerica]

16:36 we feel the fall of Rome still today.

[sarahsarah]

You don't vet the readers, do you?

[Oink-FM]

I'm extremely annoyed at how Elagabalus is pronounced in this reading. Other than that awesome and amazing!

[sarahsarah]

Some sections are read in an unintelligible accent, which is frankly quite ridiculous.

[Barak]

The Roman Empire was taken down by black people.
Which is a hidden fact in history
Septimius Severus was a black man. And all the soldiers and Gladiators who followed him were also black.

They took down the Imperial Roman Empire making the Caucasian people who ruled over it retreat to the caucus mountains or become slaves to the blacks who became the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. Which lead to the black rulership of Europe during the dark ages. Being forced to live in the caucus mountains is where the term Caucasian comes from. You were cave men post civilization not pre-civilization.

I’m sure some of these facts are omitted in this lesson. But I have the history books to back my points.

I will enjoy listening to this book
Also I know the racist and offended Caucasians are gonna come and mock and tell me I got my information wrong and yadadadada.

No I’m correct plenty of notable historians from the time and as well as present time will back my claims.

No you wasn’t always in control and no you wasn’t all the greatest people in history.

Got Caucasians claiming to be Phoenicians and all kinds of lies being taught to them.

Charlemagne was a black man lol
Now go and deny this fact. The Germanic tribes were black 😂

Why do you think Benjamin Franklin talked about most of Europe being predominantly swarthy or tawny? Why do you think that is. The Moors were black the word moor literally means black 😂