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Neville Jason
Discography
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Featuring
Edward Gibbon
and
Philip Madoc
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1
Part 01-01: The most civilised portion of mankind.
2
Part 01-02: The terror of the Roman arms - the preservation of peace by a constant preparation for war
3
Part 01-03: Every useful instrument of war
4
Part 01-04: An empire united by laws and adorned by arts
5
Part 01-05: The Roman language - an influence over national manners
6
Part 01-06: The most numerous society under the same system of government
7
Part 01-07: The fate of the Roman world depended on the will of Augustus
8
Part 01-08: A succession of monsters with unparalleled vices
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
10
Part 01-10: Commodus - revelling in the licence of sovereign power
11
Part 01-11: Pertinax accedes to power
12
Part 02-01: The Praetorian Guards and the bribe of Didius Julianus
13
Part 02-02: Septimus Severus - a pernicious indulgence
14
Part 02-03: The two sons of Severus - Caracella and Geta
15
Part 02-04: Caracella becomes sole emperor
16
Part 02-05: Antonius becomes Elagabalus, supreme emperor and pontiff - and licentious despot
17
Part 02-06: The reign of Alexander - an auspicious calm of thirteen years
18
Part 02-07: The rise of Maximin, dark and sanguinary
19
Part 02-08: Confusion of power between Maximus, Balbinus and Gordianus
20
Part 02-09: Philip - a period of games
21
Part 02-10: Decius and the appearance of the Goths
22
Part 02-11: Hostilianus and Gallus
23
Part 02-12: Aemilianus, Valerian and Gallieneus - an empire oppressed
24
Part 02-13: Claudius - the first of the Restorers of the Roman world
25
Part 03-01: Aurelian - four years of memorable achievement
26
Part 03-02: Zenobia fights back - the fate of the East is decided
27
Part 03-03: The death of Aurelian and the accession of Tacitus
28
Part 03-04: Probus and the deliverance of Gaul and 70 German cities
29
Part 03-05: Carus, Numerian and Carinus - soft, cruel, devotet to pleasure yet destitute of taste
30
Part 03-06: The illustrous reign of Diocletian and Maximian
31
Part 03-07: The end of Rome as the capital of the empire
32
Part 03-08: The abdication of Diocletian
33
Part 03-09: Two new Augusti - Constantius and Galerius
34
Part 03-10: The elevation of Constantine and a time of confusion
35
Part 03-11: The final battle between Constantine and Maxentius
36
Part 04-01: Constantine overwhelms Licinius, a victory which leads to the foundation of Constantinople
37
Part 04-02: A candid but rational inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity under the Roman Empire
38
Part 04-03: A dark and unjust record righted
39
Part 04-04: Nero - mistakenly judged one of history's most vilified figures
40
Part 04-05: Protection for the Christians
41
Part 04-06: Diocletian introduces systematic repression
42
Part 04-07: Gibbon's conclusions on the Roman persecution
43
Part 04-08: Constantine - a new capital but a fatal flaw in defence
44
Part 05-01: The petty abuse of power and local tyrannies
45
Part 05-02: Asiatic pomp and a gradual decline
46
Part 05-03: Constantius, Gallus and the eunuchs
47
Part 05-04: Julian, a Caesar of very different ilk
48
Part 05-05: The establishment of Christianity
49
Part 05-06: The rise in popularity of Julian
50
Part 05-07: The road to civil war
51
Part 05-08: Julian assumes supreme power
52
Part 05-09: The apostasy of Julian
53
Part 05-10: The death of Julian
54
Part 06-01: Jovian - a brief reign
55
Part 06-02: Valentinian, emperor of the West and Valens, emperor of the East
56
Part 06-03: Gratian, emperor of the West
57
Part 06-04: The humbling of the empire
58
Part 06-05: The incursion of the Visigoth Fritigern and the death of Valens at Hadrianople
59
Part 06-06: Theodosius, emperor of the East, aims for a modus vivendi with the Visigoths
60
Part 06-07: Maximus takes rule of the Western empire but unadvisedly marches against Theodosius
61
Part 06-08: Arcadius and Honorius and their commander Stilicho
62
Part 06-09: The power of the Visigoths under Alaric
63
Part 06-10: The execution of Stilicho opens the Goths' road to Rome
64
Part 06-11: The decadence of the empire in the reign of Honorius and the siege of Rome
65
Part 06-12: The sound of the Gothic trumpet
66
Part 06-13: The end of the Roman Empire in the West
67
Part 06-14: The reign of Odoacer, the first barbarian king of Italy
68
Part 06-15: General observations on the fall of the Roman Empire in the West