TY  - SOUND
AU  - Gibbon,Edward
AU  - Madoc,Philip
AU  - Jason,Neville
AU  - Mead,Gary
TI  - The decline and fall of the Roman Empire
SN  - 9789626341223
AV  - SDD 37339 
U1  - 937.06 GIB 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Naxos Audiobooks
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - fast
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Abridged by Gary Mead; Program notes inserted into container by Gary Mead; "Classic literature with classical music"--Container; "Classic non-fiction"--Container; Produced by Nicolas Soames; Read by Philip Madoc with Neville Jason
N2  - "This six-disc recording covers the final three volumes of Gibbon's work, tracing ten centuries in the life of the eastern half of the empire, whose capital city was Constantinople. Among the many figures who stride across Gibbon's stage here are the emperor Justinian I, a noble statesman and successful warrior, brought low by his lascivious wife, the former prostitute Theodora; the murdering Basil I, a peasant who nonetheless proved himself a worthy figure upon which to drape the purple; and the final emperor of all, Constantine XI, who died on the battlements of Constantinople in 1453, valiantly fighting a losing battle to prevent the Turks from gaining a city they had craved for centuries"--Container
ER  -