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Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 70, 1984 - Issue 1
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“Meditating tacitus”: Gibbon's adaptation to an eighteenth century audience”

Arthur Quinn Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Pages 53-68 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009
 
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Abstract

In his Decline and Fall, Gibbon adapts Tacitus to show an eighteenth century audience how the fate of the Roman Empire need not be shared by the new empires of Europe.

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