The late Welsh actor, Philip Madoc, has a delivery and voice (sonorous, compelling), accent (refined but not plummy) and cadence/phrasing (juggernaut-like yet not overly rapid) that lends itself perfectly to the most evocative and, at times, syntactically complex, historical account ever written. Rome is brought into vivid relief in this performance, with transporting sentences you will wish to repeat to yourself over and over to bask in their sounds and images. Other historians (Jacques Barzun and William Manchester) may be heirs to Gibbon's throne, but there can be only one Edward Gibbon.
David Sahner
Santa Cruz, CA
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