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Best of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Quotations and commentary selected from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ideas and advice of relevance to society and life today, in the superb language of the 18th century.
http://www.his.com/z/gibbon.html
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Complete online HTML text, extensively annotated, with references cross-linked to the Encyclopedia of the Self.
http://www.selfknowledge.com/163au.htm
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
etext at CCEL.
http://ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/
Tom Moran's Edward Gibbon Page
Commentary on Gibbon's life, writing style, and view of religion. Also provides links to e-texts and brief reviews of printings.
http://members.aol.com/Feuillade/TomMoran28.index.html
Follies of Elagabalus
Excerpt from Vol. I., Chapter 6 of the Decline and Fall, including footnotes.
http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/elagib.htm
Edward Gibbon, Historian of the Roman Empire, Part I
Essay by Eugene Y. C. Ho originally published in Issue 30 (Apr-Jun 1994) of the Hong Kong intellectual journal Intellectus, to commemorate Gibbon's bicentennial. Describes Gibbon's life, the writing of the Decline and Fall, and the text itself; Part II discusses major themes, prose style, and flaws.
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~zimm/gibho1.html
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