![罗马帝国衰亡史（第一卷） - [英] 爱德华·吉本](https://static.book345.com/covers/s/9787807621164.jpg)
书籍介绍
翻开第一卷，你很快会意识到：这不是一本让人放松的罗马史。它刻意从奥古斯都之后落笔，中段跳过图拉真，重心压向拜占庭，仿佛吉本早就知道——真正值得书写的，从来不是开疆拓土的辉煌，而是辉煌如何一步步溃烂。书中几乎每个朝代的更替都始于篡夺与谋害，军人干政、货币贬值、农业破产，帝国在内部的腐朽中缓慢失血，外来的蛮族只是替罪羊。它不给你爽文式的英雄叙事，反而逼你直视
作者简介
译者简介
席代岳 湖南省东安县人，1939年生，10岁时随父母来台，陆军军官学校毕业，后在三军大学及美国犹他州立大学进修，在军中历任连长、营长、炮兵指挥官、署长、总部参谋长等职，亦曾在炮兵学校及三军大学任教多年，对战史深有研究。
退役后投入文字工作，译笔忠实，文风流畅。译作有《西泽战记》(2001)、《鏖斗的年代──1941至1975年的美越关系》(2001)、《战争的罪行》(2002)等。
AI导读
核心看点
- 剖析罗马帝国由盛转衰的军事、经济与宗教根源
- 涵盖千年历史，展现政教博弈与蛮族入侵的宏大叙事
- 兼具史学严谨与文学修辞，启蒙时代理性批判的典范
读者共识
- 文笔优美如史诗，但内容庞杂，非入门书，需耐心啃读
- 吉本的启蒙主义视角深刻，但部分观点受时代局限有争议
- 虽难读且易忘，但作为经典巨著，对构建历史全局观极有益
精彩摘录
- "。。。专制体制刻意摧毁共和精神，使人民变成政治侏儒，一群政治侏儒如何能支撑一个伟大的帝国。"
- "WHENEVER Tacitus indulges himself in those beautiful episodes, in which he relates some domestic transaction of the Germans or of the Parthians, his principal object is to relieve the attention of the reader from a uniform scene of vice and misery. From the reign of Augustus to the time of Alexander"
- "Artaxerxes had served with great reputation in the armies of Artaban, the last king of the Parthians, and it appears that he was driven into exile and rebellion by royal ingratitude, the customary reward for superior merit. His birth was obscure, and the obscurity equally gave room to the aspersions"
- "One of these, Erdaviraph, a young but holy prelate, received from the hands of his brethren three cups of soporiferous wine. He drank them off, and instantly fell into a long and profound sleep. As soon as he waked, he related to the king and to the believing multitude his journey to Heaven, and his"
- "Every mode of religion, to make a deep and lasting impression on the human mind, must exercise our obedience, by enjoining practices of devotion; and must acquire our esteem, by inculcating moral duties analogous to the dictates of our own hearts. The religion of Zoroaster was abundantly provided wi"
- "But there are some remarkable instances, in which Zoroaster lays aside the prophet, assumes the legislator, and discovers a liberal concern for private and public happiness, seldom to be found among the grovelling or visionary schemes of superstition. Fasting and celibacy, the common means of purcha"
- "Had Zoroaster, in all his institutions, invariably supported this exalted character, his name would deserve a place with those of Numa and Confucius, and his system would be justly entitled to all the applause which it has pleased some of our divines, and even some of our philosophers, to bestow on "
- "Such are the circumstances of. this ostentatious and improbable relation, dictated, as it too plainly appears, by the vanity of the monarch, adorned by the unblushing servility of his flatterers, and received without contradiction by a distant and obsequious senate. Far from being inclined to believ"
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