The Fall of the Roman Empire (30 page)

SYNESIUS
c.
370-413. Born at Cyrene (near Shahhat in Eastern Libya). Philosopher and Bishop of Ptolemais (Tolmeta, 410). 9 hymns, rhetorical discourses, and 156 letters.

THEMISTIUS
c.
317-88. Born in Paphlagonia (north Turkey).

Pagan philosopher and rhetorician. 34 speeches, mainly official addresses, survive, and paraphrases of Aristotle.

THEODORET c. 393-466. Born at Antioch (Antakya, south-east Turkey). Bishop of Cyrrhus (Kurus). Numerous works include
Church History
to 428 and 30 ascetic biographies of
Religious History.

ZOSIMUS wrote c. 500. Tentatively identified with sophist of Ascalon (Ashkelon, southern Israel) or Gaza. Pagan. Writer of
New History
from Augustus to AD 410.

Some Books on the Decline & Fall

A. ALFOLDI

A Conflict of Ideas in the later Roman Empire: The Clash between the Senate and Valentinian I,
Oxford University Press, 1952.

F.         ALTHEIM

Niedergang der Alien Welt,
Frankfurt-am-Main, 1952.

M. T. W. ARNHEIM

The Senatorial Aristocracy of the Later Roman Empire,
Oxford University Press, 1972.

W. C. BARK

Origins of the Medieval World,
Stanford University Press, 1958; Doubleday Anchor, 1960.

R. H. BARROW (ed.)

Prefect and Emperor: The Relationes ofSymmachus (AD 384),
Oxford University Press, 1973.

R. BIANCHI BANDINELLI

The Late Empire: Roman Art AD 200-400,
Thames and Hudson, 1971.

G.        W. BOWERSOCK, J. CLIVE, S. R.
GRAUBARD (eds.)

Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Harvard University Press, 1977.

p. BROWN

Augustine of Hippo,
Faber 1967.

P. BROWN

The World of Late Antiquity,
Thames and Hudson, 1971

j. w. BURROW

Gibbon,
Oxford University Press, 1985.

J. B. BURY

History of the Later Roman Empire,
1923; Dover, 1958.

A. CAMERON

Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius,
Oxford University Press, 1970.

R. A. G. CARSON

Principal Coins of the Romans, Vol. Ill, The Dominate AD 294-498,
British Museum Publications Ltd., 1981.

R. A. G. CARSON and J. P. C KENT

Part II
(AD 346-98),
Spink, 1960.

M. CHAMBERS (ed.)

The Fall of Rome: Can it be Explained?
Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1963.

A. CHASTAGNOL

Recherches sur I'Histoire Auguste

(Antiquitas, Reihe 4), Habelt, Bonn, 1970.

K. CHRIST (ed.)

Der Untergang des romischen

Reiches
(Wege der Forschung),

1971

C N. COCHRANE

Christianity and Classical Culture,
Oxford University Press, 1940; Galaxy, 1957.

C. H. COSTER

Late Roman Studies,
Harvard University Press, 1968.

P. COURCELLE

Histoire litteraire des grandes invasions germaniques,
Paris, 1948; 3rd ed., 1965.

B. CUNLIFFE

Romans and the Barbarian West: Spheres of Interaction 600 BC-AD 400,
1988.

P. B. CRADDOCK
Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian,
John Hopkins University Press, 1988.

c. DAWSON

The Making of Europe,
1932; Meridian, 1956.

A. DEMANDT

Der Fall Roms,
Munich, 1984.

E. DEMOUGEOT

La formation de I'Europe et les invasions barbares,
Paris, 1969.

H.-J. DIESNER

Die Volkerwanderung,
Leipzig, 1976, Gutersloh, 1980 (translated as
The Great Migration: The Movement of Peoples across Europe AD 300-joo,
Orbis, London, 1982).

S. DILL

Roman Society in the Last Century of

the Western Empire,
1898; Meridian, 1958.

E.         R. DODDS

Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety,
Cambridge University Press, 1965.

G. DOWNEY

The Late Roman Empire,
Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

F. H. DUDDEN

Life and Times of St Ambrose,
1935. v. DURUY

Histoire des Romains depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu'a la mort de Constant in,
Paris , 1879-85.

F.         DVORNIK

Byzance et la primaute romaine,
Cerf, Paris, 1964 (translated as
Byzantium and the Roman Primacy,
Fordham University Press, 1966).

D. EARL

The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome,
Thames and Hudson, 1967.

w. ENSSLIN

Die Religionspolitik des Kaisers Theodosius des Grosses,
Munich, 1953-

A. FERRILL

The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation,
Thames and Hudson, 1983, 1988.

S. FISCHER-FABIAN

Die Ersten Deutschen,
Knaur Nachfolger, Munich and Zurich, 1975-

E. GIBBON

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
London, 1776-88 (abridged by D. M. Low, Chatto and Windus, 1960, Washington Square, 1962).

W GOFFART

Barbarians and Romans, AD 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation,
1987.

W. GOFFART

The Narrators of Barbarian History (AD 550-800),
1987.

C. D. GORDON

The Age of Attila,
University of Michigan Press, 1960.

M. GRANT

The Fall of the Roman Empire: Is it Relevant to Us?' in O. Molden (ed.),
Evolution und die Zukunft der Menschheit,
Vienna, 1985.

M. GRANT

The Dawn of the Middle Ages,
McGraw Hill and Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.

L. HAMBLEN

Attila et les Huns,
Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1972.

R. M. HAYWOOD

The Myth of Rome's Fall,
Alvin Redman, 1960.

H. HOMEYER

Attila der Hunnenkonig von seinen Zeitgenossen dargestellt,
de Gruyter, Berlin, 1951.

H. ISBELL (ed.)

The Last Poets of Imperial Rome,
Penguin, 1971.

A. H. M. JONES

The Decline of the Ancient World,
Longmans, 1966.

A. H. M. JONES

The Later Roman Empire,
Blackwell, 1964.

D. P. JORDAN

Gibbon and his Roman Empire,
University of Illinois Press, 1971.

w. E. KAEGI

Byzantium and the Decline of Rome,
Princeton University Press, 1968.

D. KAGAN (ed.)
The End of the Roman Empire: Decline or Transformation,
2nd ed., Lexington Massachusetts, 1978.

J. N. D. KELLY

Jerome: His Life, Writings and Controversies,
Duckworth, 1974.

M. MCCORMICK

Eternal Victory,
Cambridge University Press, 1986.

H. p. L'ORANGE

Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire,
Princeton 1965.

F. LOT

La fin du monde antique et le debut du Moyen-Age,
Paris, 1927 (translated as
The End of the Ancient World and the Beginning of the Middle Ages,
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1931; reprint 1966).

R. MACMULLEN

Corruption and the Decline of Rome,
Yale University Press, 1988.

O.J.MAENCHEN-HELFEN

The World of the Huns,
University

of California Press, Berkeley, 1973.

FX. I. MARROU

S. Augustin et la fin de la culture antique,
4th ed., Paris, 1958 (translated as
St Augustine and his influence
[Men of Wisdom series], 1957)-

J. MATTHEWS

Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364-425,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975.

H. MATTINGLY

Roman Coins,
Methuen, 1928; 2nd ed., 1960.

S. MAZZARINO

La fine del mondo antico,
Garzanti,

Milan, 1959 (translated as
The End of the Ancient World,
Faber and Faber, London, and Knopf, New York, 1966).

S. MAZZARINO

Stilicone: La crisi imperiale dopo Teodosio,
Rome, 1942.

A. MOMIGLIANO (ed.)

The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century,
Oxford University Press, 1963.

C. L. DE S. MONTESQUIEU

Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence,
Paris, 1734 (translated as
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline,
Cornell, 1969).

L. MUSSET

The German Invasions,
University Park, Pennsylvania, 1975.

K. L. NOETHLICHS

Die gesetzgeberischen Massnahmen der christlichen Kaiser des vierten Jahrhunderts,
Koln University, 1971.

H. O. OSBORN

The Emergence of Christian Culture in the West,
Harper, 1958.

J. R. PALANQUE

Le bas-empire,
Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1971.

A. PAREDI

S. Ambrogio,
Milan, 1960 (translated as
St Ambrose,
1964).

A. PARRY (ed.)

Studies in Fifth-Century Thought and Literature
(Yale Classical Studies, Vol. 22), 1972.

F. PASCHOUD

Roma Aeterna
(Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana, Vol. 7), Institut Suisse, Rome 1967.

s. PEROWNE

The End of the Roman World,
Hodder and Stoughton, 1966.

c. PHARR

The Theodosian Code and Novels and Sirmondian Constitutions,
Princeton University Press, 1952.

A. PIGANIOL

L'empire chretien,
Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1947; 2nd ed., 1972.

J. D. RANDERS-PEHRSON

Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe AD 400—700,
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1983.

w. REHM

Der Untergang Roms in abendlandischen Denken
(Das Erbe der Alten, Vol. 18), Leipzig, 1930.

R. REMONDON

La crise de Vempire romain,
Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1964.

R. SEAGER

Ammianus Marcellinus: Seven Studies in his Language and Thought,
University of Missouri Press, 1986.

0.SEECK

Geschichte des Untergangs der antiken Welt,
Stuttgart, 1910-19.

E. STEIN

Geschichte des spatrdmischen Reichs, I: Vom rbmischen zum byzantinischen Staate (284-476 n. Chr.),
Vienna, 1928 (translated and revised as
Histoire du bas-empire,
Paris, 1959).

R. SYME

Ammianus and the Historia Augusta,
Oxford University Press, 1968.

R. SYME

Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta,
Oxford University Press, 1971.

M. TESTARD

S. Jerome,
Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1969.

E. A. THOMPSON

The Early Germans,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965.

E. A. THOMPSON

A History of Attila and the Huns,
Oxford University Press, 1948, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1975-

E. A. THOMPSON

Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire,
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1982.

M.TODD

The Northern Barbarians 100 BC-AD 300,
London, 1978.

J. VOGT

Der Niedergang Roms,
Kindler, Zurich, 1965 (translated as
The Decline of Rome,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1967).

J. VOGT

Kulturwelt und Barbaren: zum

Menschheitsbild der spatantiken Gesellschaft
(Akademie der Wissenschaften in Mainz), Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1967.

F. W. WALBANK

The Awful Revolution,
Liverpool University Press, 1969.

J. M. WALLACE-HADRILL

The Barbarian West AD 400-1000,
3rd ed., London 1967.

M. A. WES

Das Ende des Kaisertums im Westen des romischen Reichs
(translated from Dutch; Nederlands Historisch Instituut te Rome), Ministerie van Cultuur, Rijswijk, 1967.

L. WHITE (ed.)

The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon's Problem after Two Centuries
(UCLA), University of California Press, 1966.

D. WOMERSLEY

The Transformation or the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Cambridge University Press, 1989.

N. YOFFEE and G. L. COWGILL (eds.)

The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations,
University of Arizona Press, 1988.

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