{"id":3177,"date":"2009-08-10T04:35:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T04:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2009-08-10T04:35:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T04:35:15","slug":"how-rome-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"How Rome Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Adrian Goldsworthy<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those readers with a deep interest in classical antiquity – I know there<\/a> are<\/a> a<\/a> number<\/a> of<\/a> you<\/a> out<\/a> there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m 125 pages in to this latest tome by British historian and classicist Adrian Goldsworthy<\/strong> <\/a>and I can say it is truly excellent; better, in fact than his acclaimed biography of Julius Caesar, Caesar: Life of a Colossus<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Where Goldsworthy was more closely tied to his primary sources in his earlier work, How Rome Fell<\/em><\/strong> gives him greater\u00a0scope for both synthesis and analysis as\u00a0Goldsworthy draws on his knowledge of the subject to evaluate theories of causation as well as to entertain and inform the reader.<\/p>\n

Will review when finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower\u00a0by Adrian Goldsworthy For those readers with a deep interest in classical antiquity – I know there are a number of you out there. I’m 125 pages in to this latest tome by British historian and classicist Adrian Goldsworthy and I can say it is truly excellent; better, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,420,133,215,118,165,51,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-book","category-culture","category-empire","category-historians","category-history","category-intellectuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}