Yes, that's right. I mean that massive series of tomes called the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire that takes up so much space on library bookshelves. I've read the adbridged version before but finally decided to accomplish my goal of reading the whole darned thing. All two million-something words of it.
These books were written in the late 1700's and still hold up as one of the most comprehensive history books ever. Not just is it incredibly thorough but just an amazing piece of prose. Gibbon's long flowing sentences are full of humorous sarcastic references to various emperors and even criticize religion. The battles between Paganism and Christianity are fascinatingly described in these pages.
I am on volume 3 of the total of 6 volumes so almost halfway toward completing the whole thing but one point I can take away from reading the volumes is that we really don't have it too bad in the US now overall. With all the problems we have here, reading this set shows how things can be a whole lot worse! Especially with an Emperor like Honorious!
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