The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)

Edward Gibbon

⏱ 8 minHistory

Part 2 of 3. The military monarchy hardens into fifty years of anarchy — Caracalla, the boy-priest Elagabalus, the giant Maximin — as Persians and Goths close in and Valerian is taken alive; then, from the wreckage, Zenobia and the Illyrian restorers pull the world back together.

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