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Edward Gibbon was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789 is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion. Moses Hadas was an American teacher, a classical scholar, and a translator of numerous works from Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and German. Mitch Horowitz is former vice-president at Penguin Random House and a PEN Award-einning historian whose books include Occult America, Uncertain Places, Daydream Believer, and Modern Occultism. His work is censored in China. |
