Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ed. by G.W. Bowersock, John Clive, and S.R. Graubard (Harvard University Press; 257 pp.; $11.00)
In: Worldview, Volume 21, Issue 9, p. 58-59
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In: Worldview, Volume 21, Issue 9, p. 58-59
In: Worldview, Volume 20, Issue 11, p. 55-55
In: Worldview, Volume 18, Issue 12, p. 51-51
In: Worldview, Volume 18, Issue 5, p. 54-56
In: Worldview, Volume 15, Issue 1, p. 21-30
Rome hulks large on the landscape of our historical memory. Among history's hills and valleys the Roman Empire stands out, a craggy peak dominating the horizon. Our civilization, like others, springs from many nations and peoples, but ancient Rome and the empire its people created have a continuing fascination for present-day Americans. The mummies of Egypt intrigue us by their mystery, and the pyramids impress us by their sheer massiveness, but to most of us Egypt is but an historical curiosity to contemplate in a museum on a Sunday afternoon. Likewise, our memory of Greece is piecemeal and-fragmented, transmitted to us as a melange of literary and intellectual masterpieces. College students read Plato and Aristotle for philosophy, Euripides and Sophocles for drama, and Homer for epic, but Greece conjures no political or military grandeur as a people or an empire.
In: The Middle East journal, Volume 48, Issue 1, p. 155
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Volume 47, Issue 3, p. 267
ISSN: 2325-7873