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Gibbon, Part 9: Justinian’s Wars in the East and Consolidation of the West

July 1, 2016 dga471 2 Comments

The Avars and the Persian War The Avars came from the people of the nation of the Ogors or Varchonites, originally living…

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Posted in: Book reviews, Gibbon, Great Books, Humanities

Gibbon, Part 8: Justinian’s Reign and Belisarius’ Western Expeditions

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Compared to the pitiful decline of the Western Empire in the preceding decades, the reign of Justinian was a resurgence.…

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Gibbon, Part 7: Theodoric and the Rise of Justinian

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The Rise of Theodoric The Western Roman Empire ended officially with the deposition of Augustulus by Odoacer in 476, but it…

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Gibbon, Part 6: The Rise of the Franks, and Assessing the Decline of the West

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The Establishment of the Frankish Kingdom Clovis was the illegitimate son of Childeric and the queen of the Thuringians. After…

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Gibbon, Part 5: Attila and the End of the Western Empire

June 23, 2016 dga471 1 Comment

From last time, we saw that the reign of Honorius resulted with the loss of Britain and all of the territory…

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Gibbon, Part 4: Theodosius and the Last Roman General

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In the last two posts, we reflected on the latter half of Volume I of Gibbon. Struggling under its immense size…

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Gibbon, Part 3: The Rise of Christianity

June 5, 2016 dga471 1 Comment

Here we shall continue with the second half of Volume I, but focusing on Gibbon’s chapters on the progress of…

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Gibbon, Part 2: Constantine and His Sons

June 2, 2016 dga471 3 Comments

Having covered Rome’s Golden Age and the chaotic succession of short-lived or tyrannical emperors during the 2nd and 3rd centuries…

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Gibbon, Part 1: Golden Age and First Signs of Decline

May 29, 2016 dga471 2 Comments

The time has finally come for the last part of the trio of Great Books volumes in our 5-year reading…

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Aristophanes: The Thesmophoriazusae, The Frogs

May 20, 2016 dga471 Leave a comment

Finally we encounter the last two plays in Aristophanes’ surviving body of works. I’ve chosen to group these two together…

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Posted in: Aristophanes, Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

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