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He is especially poor on the Byzantine Empire. John Julius Norwich has a three volume work on that subject if you want a better account of the 'Eastern' Roman Empire. His main theory that Christianity was a prime factor in the collapse of the Empire is generally disputed today. The Roman Empire by Colin Wells and The Later Roman Empire by Averil Cameron are good 'beginner' modern histories of some of the period covered by Gibbon. |
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Thanks, corroonb.
Is the PG edition (David Widger as editor, and Henry Hart Milman as commentator) supposed to be one of the better ones? - Ahi |
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09-10-2009, 12:54 PM | #18 |
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I have no idea. The edition I have is the Everyman text edited by the Folio Society's choice of editor (Betty Radice). I suspect the Everyman edition by Hugh-Trevor Roper is the standard edition. The PG text looks pretty good though.
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If you are looking for a good history involving the Roman Empire, I highly recommend Spartacus War by Barry Strauss. I'm just about finished with it in hardcover pbook version, but the link I provided here is to an ebook version at Fictionwise.
Reading this book helps clarify the difficulties with ancient histories. However, the story of Spartacus remains a great historical thriller. |
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That's alright though... shouldn't be too hard to put together. - Ahi |
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Ick. Footnotes and ebooks don't play well together. I started The Canterbury Tales, but it was such a mess that it was perfectly useless. It looks OK on the PC.
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I am reading a paper version with the footnotes and the ebook version from this site at the same time. I actually prefer the version without footnotes.
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You could download PDFs from Google and OCR them with a good program (i.e. Finereader). The results will likely be better than the PG version which dates from 1997.
Here's one version of Vol I. |
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Igorsky, how does the Google Epub OCR conversion stack up to Finereader's? Would it be easier to clean up Google's version or Finereader's? |
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What about taking a given document, OCR-ing it with at least 3 or more different OCR programs, and then parallel parsing them character by character (perhaps now and then making and adjustment, if one of the streams is out of line do to an erroneously detect additional character) and always putting the character into the output stream that the (most) OCR-d texts agree on. Obviously this won't help with anything that the various OCR programs get wrong in the same way... but it might minimize the amount of clean-up to be done thereafter. How realistic is such an approach? Anybody here tried it before? - Ahi |
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