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Author:

Lock, F. P.

Title:

The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History / F.P. Lock.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 213 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Gibbon, Edward,--1737-1794.--History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Numbers in literature.
Literature and history.
Symbolism of numbers in literature.
Rome--Historiography.--Empire, 284-476--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Numbers -- Time -- Place -- Population -- War -- Religion -- Money -- Books.

ISBN:

1611494176 (electronic)
9781611494174 (electronic)
1611494168 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611494167 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)792886195

LCCN:

2012022090

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)