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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome - The History of a Dangerous Idea (Hardcover)
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome - The History of a Dangerous Idea (Hardcover)
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As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome
great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal
have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a
constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone
from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman
politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a
tool to illustrate the negative consequences of changes in their
world. Because Roman history is so long, it provides a buffet of
ready-made stories of decline that can help develop the context
around any snapshot. And Rome did, in fact, decline and,
eventually, fall. An empire that once controlled all or part of
more than 40 modern European, Asian, and African countries no
longer exists. Roman prophets of decline were, ultimately, proven
correct-a fact that makes their modern invocations all the more
powerful. If it happened then, it could happen now. The Eternal
Decline and Fall of Rome tells the stories of the people who built
their political and literary careers around promises of Roman
renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed for causing
Rome's decline. Each chapter offers the historical context
necessary to understand a moment or a series of moments in which
Romans, aspiring Romans, and non-Romans used ideas of Roman decline
and restoration to seize power and remake the world around them.
The story begins during the Roman Republic just after 200 BC. It
proceeds through the empire of Augustus and his successors, traces
the Roman loss of much of western Europe in the fifth century AD,
and then follows Roman history as it runs through the Eastern Roman
Empire (Byzantium) until its fall in 1453. The final two chapters
look at ideas of Roman decline and renewal from the fifteenth
century until today. If Rome illustrates the profound danger of the
rhetoric of decline, it also demonstrates the rehabilitative
potential of a rhetoric that focuses on collaborative restoration,
a lesson of great relevance to our world today.
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