GIBBON, EDWARD
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DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (PART 1)
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Details:
- Readers: Neville Jason, Philip Madoc
- Discs: 6
- Running Time: 474 minutes
Track Listing:
| Disk 1 | |
| 1. | The Most Civilised Portion Of Mankind |
| 2. | The Terror Of The Roman Arms - The Preservation Of Peace By A Constant Preparation For War |
| 3. | Every Useful Intrument Of War |
| 4. | An Empire United By Laws And Adorned By Arts |
| 5. | The Roman Language - An Influence Over National Manners |
| 6. | The Most Numerous Society Under The Same System Of Government |
| 7. | The Fate Of The Roman World Depended On The Will Of Augustus |
| 8. | A Succession Of Monsters With Uparalleled Vices |
| 9. | The Rule Of The Two Antonines - The Only Period Of History In Which The Happiness Of A Great People |
| 10. | Commodus - Revelling In The Licence Of Sovereign Power |
| 11. | Pertinax Accedes To Power |
| Disk 2 | |
| 1. | The Praetorian Guards And The Bribe Of Didius Julianus |
| 2. | Septimus Severus - A Pernicious Indulgence |
| 3. | The Two Sons Of Severus - Caracalla And Geta |
| 4. | Caracalla Becomes Sole Emperor |
| 5. | Antoninus Becomes Elagabalus, Supreme Emperor And Pontiff - And Licentious Despot |
| 6. | The Reign Of Alexander - An Auspicious Calm Of Thirteen Years |
| 7. | The Rise Of Maximin, Dark And Sanguinary |
| 8. | Confusion Of Power Between Maximus, Balbinus And Gordianus |
| 9. | Philip - A Period Of Games |
| 10. | Decius And The Appearance Of The Goths |
| 11. | Hostilianus And Gallus |
| 12. | Aemilianus, Valerian And Gallienus - An Empire Oppressed |
| 13. | Claudius - The First Of The Restorers Of The Roman World |
| Disk 3 | |
| 1. | Aurelian - Four Years Of Memorable Achievement |
| 2. | Zenobia Fights Back - The Fate Of The East Is Decided |
| 3. | The Death Of Aurelian And The Accession Of Tacitus |
| 4. | Probus And The Deliverance Of Gaul And 70 German Cities |
| 5. | Carus, Numerian And Carinus - Soft, Cruel, Devoted To Pleasure Yet Destitute Of Taste |
| 6. | The Illustrious Reign Of Diocletian And Maximian |
| 7. | The End Of Rome As The Capital Of The Empire |
| 8. | The Abdication Of Diocletian |
| 9. | Two New Augusti - Constantius And Galerius |
| 10. | The Elevation Of Constantine And A Time Of Confusion |
| 11. | The Final Battle Between Constantine And Maxentius |
| Disk 4 | |
| 1. | Constantine Overwhelms Licinius, A Victory Which Leads To The Foundation Of Constantinople |
| 2. | A Candid But Rational Inquiry Into The Progress And Establishment Of Christianity Under The Roman Em |
| 3. | A Dark And Unjust Record Righted |
| 4. | Nero - Mistakenly Judged One Of History's Most Vilified Figures |
| 5. | Protection For The Christians |
| 6. | Diocletian Introduces Systematic Repression |
| 7. | Gibbon's Conclusions On The Roman Persecution Of The Christians |
| 8. | Constantine - A New Capital But A Fatal Flaw In Defence |
| Disk 5 | |
| 1. | The Petty Abuse Of Power And Local Tyrannies |
| 2. | Asiatic Pomp And A Gradual Decline |
| 3. | Constantius, Gallus And The Eunuchs |
| 4. | Julian, A Caesar Of Very Different Ilk |
| 5. | The Establishment Of Christianity |
| 6. | The Rise In Popularity Of Julian |
| 7. | The Road To Civil War |
| 8. | Julian Assumes Supreme Power |
| 9. | The Apostasy Of Julian |
| 10. | The Death Of Julian |
| Disk 6 | |
| 1. | Jovian - A Brief Reign |
| 2. | Valentinian, Emperor Of The West And Valens, Emperor Of The East |
| 3. | Gratian, Emperor Of The West |
| 4. | The Humbling Of The Empire |
| 5. | The Incursion Of The Visigoth Fritigern And The Death Of Valens At Hadrianople |
| 6. | Theodosius, Emperor Of The East, Aims For A Modus Vivendi With The Visigoths |
| 7. | Maximus Takes Rule Of The Western Empire But Unadvisedly Marches Against Theodosius |
| 8. | Arcadius And Honorius And Their Commander Stilicho |
| 9. | The Power Of The Visigoths Under Alaric |
| 10. | The Execution Of Stilicho Opens The Goths' Road To Rome |
| 11. | The Decadence Of The Empire In The Reign Of Honorius And The Siege Of Rome |
| 12. | The Sound Of The Gothic Trumpet |
| 13. | The End Of The Roman Empire In The West |
| 14. | The Reign Of Odoacer, The First Barbarian King Of Italy |
| 15. | General Observations On The Fall Of The Roman Empire In The West |
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