Is it still worth reading? Or has a better alternative since

>>3295933

All I know is that the audiobook version is 100+ hours long. I'll get to it someday, but I'm not ready for that yet. The next book on Rome that I'm planning to listen to is Praetorian.

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>>3295937
>audiobook

wtf is this pleb shit

>>3295933
>Is it still worth reading?

Sure

>Or has a better alternative since been created?

Abso-fucking-lutely you utter spastic, it's nearly a quarter-millennium old.

Of course better alternatives are available. Gibbon's model of the Collapse is incredibly out of date. The Man completely writes off Byzantium because notmuhs

What are some good books that cover the entire history of the Roman empire not just a specific era?

>>3295987
Any attempt at a grand narrative of the empire is going to insanely long, or incredibly reductive. It's probably best to seek out a few good books covering different eras and just read each.

>>3295933
>Is it still worth reading?
Yes.
>Is it accurate?
No.

It's better as an example of what Enlightenment Era thinkers thought of the Roman Empire rather than any actual model of the "fall" of the WRE

>>3295933
So much of what is in there has been disproven many times over. For example some of the primary source he uses, that other people had used before him also, have been proving to be fakes.