CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Tiber, Tivo, Aeneid
Document Summary
Decline and fall of the roman empire (6 volumes) Begins with the death of marcus aurelius 180 ce. Treated christianity as a social and cultural phenomenon rather than an inevitable process or religious experience. Personal anecdotes about gibbon horrible body odor, spurned benjamin franklin. Franklin wasn"t insulted, said he would help him work on the next volume called the decline and fall of the british empire. Virginia woolf loved his craft of writing admires as a literary person. Like livy, gibbon is a moral historian who attributes reasons of morality to the. Decline and fall of rome loss of traditional values and beliefs, failure to respect authority, consequences of wealth. Imperial rome economic prosperity 2nd century ce. Extension of citizenship (distinction between italian and roman lost) Provinces (armies fixed on frontiers) have clearly defined borders, dialects, and eventually what led to the partition of europe. The age of the five good emperors. Nerva ruled 96-98 coinage displays political slogans.
