From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!bunker!willy
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Decline and Fall ...
Article-I.D.: bunker.217
Posted: Thu Mar 10 10:19:37 1983
Received: Fri Mar 11 03:50:11 1983

Sorry if anyone has seen this already, but I don't think it
left our machine properly...

	Can anyone out there point me to an annotated copy of
Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?"  The
problem is, many of the footnotes are in Latin or Greek, and
unfortunately, it's all Martian to me.  Do any of y'all read
Latin and/or Greek?
	I've just finished the first volume, and I am enjoying
it, but (in addition to the footnotes) I often find myself
confused.  Gibbon seems to jump around a bit.  He also assumes
that the reader already has some (much) knowledge of the history
of Rome (and of Latin and Greek).  When he was writing the book,
his assumptions probably held, but I need some help today.
Did anyone else have these problems?
	Any suggestions or comments would be welcome.

	Not afraid to get some culture (besides the stuff on
	my dirty dishes),

		Bill Banze
		(...!bunker!willy)