Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (feat. narrator: Philip Madoc, Neville Jason)


CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part 01-01: The most civilised portion of mankind. 12:40
2 Part 01-02: The terror of the Roman arms - the preservation of peace by a constant preparation for war 9:33
3 Part 01-03: Every useful instrument of war 5:49
4 Part 01-04: An empire united by laws and adorned by arts 8:30
5 Part 01-05: The Roman language - an influence over national manners 3:42
6 Part 01-06: The most numerous society under the same system of government 7:23
7 Part 01-07: The fate of the Roman world depended on the will of Augustus 9:53
8 Part 01-08: A succession of monsters with unparalleled vices 2:40
9 Part 01-09: The rule of the two Antonines - the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government 1:04
10 Part 01-10: Commodus - revelling in the licence of sovereign power 14:34
11 Part 01-11: Pertinax accedes to power 3:23
Total time 79:11
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part 02-01: The Praetorian Guards and the bribe of Didius Julianus 8:27
2 Part 02-02: Septimus Severus - a pernicious indulgence 2:20
3 Part 02-03: The two sons of Severus - Caracella and Geta 6:12
4 Part 02-04: Caracella becomes sole emperor 6:02
5 Part 02-05: Antonius becomes Elagabalus, supreme emperor and pontiff - and licentious despot 4:53
6 Part 02-06: The reign of Alexander - an auspicious calm of thirteen years 9:00
7 Part 02-07: The rise of Maximin, dark and sanguinary 7:60
8 Part 02-08: Confusion of power between Maximus, Balbinus and Gordianus 7:57
9 Part 02-09: Philip - a period of games 4:32
10 Part 02-10: Decius and the appearance of the Goths 6:02
11 Part 02-11: Hostilianus and Gallus 3:02
12 Part 02-12: Aemilianus, Valerian and Gallieneus - an empire oppressed 9:05
13 Part 02-13: Claudius - the first of the Restorers of the Roman world 3:35
Total time 79:08
CD 3
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part 03-01: Aurelian - four years of memorable achievement 11:46
2 Part 03-02: Zenobia fights back - the fate of the East is decided 10:49
3 Part 03-03: The death of Aurelian and the accession of Tacitus 6:02
4 Part 03-04: Probus and the deliverance of Gaul and 70 German cities 7:47
5 Part 03-05: Carus, Numerian and Carinus - soft, cruel, devotet to pleasure yet destitute of taste 3:31
6 Part 03-06: The illustrous reign of Diocletian and Maximian 7:47
7 Part 03-07: The end of Rome as the capital of the empire 8:34
8 Part 03-08: The abdication of Diocletian 3:13
9 Part 03-09: Two new Augusti - Constantius and Galerius 5:29
10 Part 03-10: The elevation of Constantine and a time of confusion 7:58
11 Part 03-11: The final battle between Constantine and Maxentius 6:22
Total time 79:17
CD 4
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part 04-01: Constantine overwhelms Licinius, a victory which leads to the foundation of Constantinople 5:14
2 Part 04-02: A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity under the Roman Empire 19:36
3 Part 04-03: A dark and unjust record righted 2:58
4 Part 04-04: Nero - mistakenly judged one of history's most vilified figures 11:08
5 Part 04-05: Protection for the Christians 13:00
6 Part 04-06: Diocletian introduces systematic repression 4:22
7 Part 04-07: Gibbon's conclusions on the Roman persecution 10:23
8 Part 04-08: Constantine - a new capital but a fatal flaw in defence 11:41
Total time 78:22
CD 5
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part 05-01: The petty abuse of power and local tyrannies 6:21
2 Part 05-02: Asiatic pomp and a gradual decline 3:55
3 Part 05-03: Constantius, Gallus and the eunuchs 8:20
4 Part 05-04: Julian, a Caesar of very different ilk 9:12
5 Part 05-05: The establishment of Christianity 9:38
6 Part 05-06: The rise in popularity of Julian 12:35
7 Part 05-07: The road to civil war 5:25
8 Part 05-08: Julian assumes supreme power 13:35
9 Part 05-09: The apostasy of Julian 4:32
10 Part 05-10: The death of Julian 5:17
Total time 78:51
CD 6
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part 06-01: Jovian - a brief reign 4:50
2 Part 06-02: Valentinian, emperor of the West and Valens, emperor of the East 7:10
3 Part 06-03: Gratian, emperor of the West 1:36
4 Part 06-04: The humbling of the empire 1:47
5 Part 06-05: The incursion of the Visigoth Fritigern and the death of Valens at Hadrianople 9:40
6 Part 06-06: Theodosius, emperor of the East, aims for a modus vivendi with the Visigoths 2:07
7 Part 06-07: Maximus takes rule of the Western empire but unadvisedly marches against Theodosius 1:36
8 Part 06-08: Arcadius and Honorius and their commander Stilicho 2:47
9 Part 06-09: The power of the Visigoths under Alaric 10:09
10 Part 06-10: The execution of Stilicho opens the Goths' road to Rome 5:04
11 Part 06-11: The decadence of the empire in the reign of Honorius and the siege of Rome 11:19
12 Part 06-12: The sound of the Gothic trumpet 5:06
13 Part 06-13: The end of the Roman Empire in the West 1:18
14 Part 06-14: The reign of Odoacer, the first barbarian king of Italy 7:02
15 Part 06-15: General observations on the fall of the Roman Empire in the West 7:57
Total time 79:29



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