罗马如何衰落
How Rome fell
Adrian Keith Goldsworthy · 初版 2009 年
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“公元200年，罗马帝国看似坚不可摧。其辽阔的版图几乎覆盖了整个已知世界。然而到了五世纪末，罗马在西欧与北非大部分地区的统治荡然无存，仅剩下一个缩水残存的东帝国。究竟是什么导致了这场看似不可能的衰亡？在本书中，Adrian Goldsworthy运用了奠定其巨作Caesar的渊博学识、独特视角与叙事技巧，来探讨这也许是历史上最重大的命题——罗马是如何衰落的。那是一个涌现了诸多非凡人物的时代，从哲学家皇帝Marcus Aurelius到像……”
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……历史，你很容易会从心底爱上所有那些顺着这些看似无尽的河流漂流的人们的故事和现实生活。比如，读读 Adrian Goldsworthy 的《Pax Romana》和《How Rome Fell》，能让你非常津津有味地了解罗马全盛与衰亡的最新视角，里面还有成百上千个非线性的故事小细节。有声书在 audiobook bay 上有。可以用 Smart Audiobook……去听
…histories, it's easy to fundamentally fall in love with all the stories and realities of the people travelling down these seemingly infinite rivers. for example, read Adrian Goldsworthy's "Pax Romana" and "How Rome Fell" for a very entertaining and up to date view of rome at its height and decline, with hundreds of little nonlinear story details. The audiobooks are on the audiobook bay. Listen to them view a Smart Audiobook…
……而且更加精明复杂，因此也更难对付。但就在今年，Adrian Goldsworthy 写了一本书，反驳了 Heather 和 Williams 提出的修正主义新观点（ http://www.amazon.com/How-Rome-Fell-Death-Superpower/dp/0300... ）。Goldsworthy 认为，蛮族的威胁其实并没有那么大，帝国的崩溃是由内而外的，起因是内战和政治斗争。我还没……
…and more sophisticated, and thus harder to handle. But just this year Adrian Goldsworthy has written a book countering the new revisionist view that Heather and Williams present ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Rome-Fell-Death-Superpower/dp/0300... ). Goldsworthy argues that the barbarian threat really wasn't that much greater, and that the empire collapsed from within, due to civil war and political strife. I haven't…
确实，确实。如果你读过那本标题大概叫《How Rome Fell》（罗马何以沦陷）或者《The Military Explanation》（军事层面的解释）的书，就会发现存在另一种类型的迹象，比如资源从边境缓缓撤回。是意志的瓦解？还是因为某种原因导致的资源匮乏，也许还包括……
True, true. If you read the book who's title is something to the effect of How Rome Fell, "The Military Explanation", there were signs of a different type, like the slow withdrawal of resources from the frontier. A failure of will? A lack of resources for whatever reason, perhaps including…