"Anarchy, Anti-Germanism, Apathy… Bankruptcy, Barbarization, - TopicsExpress



          

"Anarchy, Anti-Germanism, Apathy… Bankruptcy, Barbarization, Bathing …’ — a German scholar recently produced a remarkable and fascinating list of the 210 explanations of the fall of the Roman empire that have been proposed over the centuries. In German they sound even better, and certainly more portentous: Hunnensturm, Hybris, Hyperthermia, moralischer Idealismus, Imperialismus, Impotenz. (For those who are intrigued, Hyperthermia, brought about by too many visits to overheated baths, could cause Impotenz.)" — Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:41:35 +0000

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