willy (03/10/83)
Sorry if anyone has seen this already, but I don't think it left our machine properly... Can anyone out there point me to an annotated copy of Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?" The problem is, many of the footnotes are in Latin or Greek, and unfortunately, it's all Martian to me. Do any of y'all read Latin and/or Greek? I've just finished the first volume, and I am enjoying it, but (in addition to the footnotes) I often find myself confused. Gibbon seems to jump around a bit. He also assumes that the reader already has some (much) knowledge of the history of Rome (and of Latin and Greek). When he was writing the book, his assumptions probably held, but I need some help today. Did anyone else have these problems? Any suggestions or comments would be welcome. Not afraid to get some culture (besides the stuff on my dirty dishes), Bill Banze (...!bunker!willy)
CAD:ingres (03/11/83)
#R:bunker:-21700:ucbcad:36600001:000:166 ucbcad!ingres Mar 11 01:20:00 1983 I'm in the middle of Decline, but have yet to find a copy with translated notes. I've sort of given up, but trying to decode it phonetically is sometimes fun. Ken