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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Vol. 2. [-3-4].
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People tell me amazing book. They'll say the writing is really strong. It's been super influential.
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You definitely should read that.
Steve Bannon Timcast IRL · Dec 2021 Do you know how long the fall of the Roman Empire took?
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · May 2026 The most famous work on the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The single most boring treatment ever written.
Mike Cernovich The Tucker Carlson Show · Jan 2026 Gibbon's great Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire covers a millennium.
In his monumental The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon described this brilliantly.
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Why people recommend it
Edward Gibbon’s monumental historical work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, details the trajectory and ultimate collapse of Roman civilization across multiple volumes. On Timcast IRL, Steve Bannon recommended the classic text to viewers seeking a deeper understanding of world history. Ryan Holiday discussed the work on The Daily Stoic to illustrate how historical timescales can help counteract modern immediacy biases, and the podcast later referenced Gibbon in the aftermath of Holiday's own book series. Jeremy Slate brought up Gibbon's seven-volume work on The Shawn Ryan Show to examine the timeline and underlying factors of Rome's decline, while Mike Cernovich mentioned purchasing all three volumes in his youth to understand popular historical references. David Perell cited Gibbon on How I Write to demonstrate how a book with undeniable objective quality can still fail to engage a reader if it misaligns with their current interests. Saagar Enjeti referenced the work on the Lex Fridman Podcast when analyzing imperial trajectories, and Ted Gioia discussed reading the text on How I Write purely to appreciate its exquisite prose style.
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Steve Bannon gibbons you got to reinvent the extended versions a little long you definitely should read that 1
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“gibbons you got to reinvent the extended versions a little long you definitely should read that”
David Perell So we'll take a book like Gibbons, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Okay, people tell me amazing b… 1
Discussed
“So we'll take a book like Gibbons, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Okay, people tell me amazing book. They'll say the writing is is is really strong. It's been super influential.”
Jeremy Slate So the most famous work on the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's wr… 1
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“So the most famous work on the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's written in 1776 um in seven volumes.”
Mike Cernovich And so, I bought Gibbons: The Decline of Fall of the Roman Empire. All three volumes, the single most borin… 1
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“And so, I bought Gibbons: The Decline of Fall of the Roman Empire. All three volumes, the single most boring treatment ever written.”
Niall Ferguson so Gibbon's great Decline and fall of the Roman Empire covers a millennium 1
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“so Gibbon's great Decline and fall of the Roman Empire covers a millennium”
Robert Evans In his monumental the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon described this brilliantly by thu… 1
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“In his monumental the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon described this brilliantly by thus introducing the Ptorian guards as it were into the palace and the Senate. The emperors taught them to perceive their own strength”
Ryan Holiday Or take something that people evoke all the time, right? The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, right? P… 1
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“Or take something that people evoke all the time, right? The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, right? People think maybe America is in the middle of that right now. But do you know how long the fall of the Roman Empire took?”
Saagar Enjeti And I actually think about that a lot from, you know, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. 1
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“And I actually think about that a lot from, you know, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon.”
Ted Gioia well I'm going to read the decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibb and I'm reading it 1
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“well I'm going to read the decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibb and I'm reading it”
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“You have the quote from Gibbon in the afterward of when he completed the clan and fall.”
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“I haven't read it, but that's what a lot of people have told me about Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Haven't read it.”
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“Edward Gibbons rise and fall of or yeah Decline and fall of the Roman Empire just throw marjerie Taylor green book in for like volume three of that [ __ ] classic Scholars work it all out”
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“I was looking forward to the hot new history book The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire because I was still convinced it was going strong”