The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Mount Athos

Also known as Athos

  • mountain
  • Byzantine monastic

The steep monastic peninsula of Athos in the northern Aegean. Gibbon notes it as the holy mountain of Byzantine monasticism, crowded with cloisters.

Type
mountain
Style
Byzantine monastic
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 290
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The steep monastic peninsula of Athos in the northern Aegean. Gibbon notes it as the holy mountain of Byzantine monasticism, crowded with cloisters.

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