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04245aam a22003498i 4500 001 A7365C62234811ECBAAFE49D31ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211002011853 008 210226t20212021nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021009498 020 $a 0190076712 020 $a 9780190076719 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1178641721 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d GO6 $d UKMGB $d WIO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ff----- $a e------ $a ff----- 050 00 $a DG205 $b .W38 2021 082 00 $a 937.0072 $2 23 100 1 $a Watts, Edward Jay, $d 1975- $e author. 245 14 $a The eternal decline and fall of Rome : $b the history of a dangerous idea / $c Edward J. Watts. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 301 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: A snapshot and a story -- Decline in the Roman Republic -- The republic of violence and the empire of peace -- Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan -- Renewal without decline : the Antonines and Severans -- Decline and false renewal : the third century crisis -- Decline, renewal, and the invention of Christian progress -- Roman renewal versus Christian progress -- When renewal fails to arrive -- The loss of the Roman West and the Christian future -- Justinian, Roman progress, and the death of the Western Roman Empire -- Rome, the Arabs, and iconoclasm -- Old Rome, new Rome, and future Rome -- The retrenchment of one Roman Empire, the resurgence of another -- The captures of Constantinople -- The fall of Roman Constantinople and the end of Roman renewal -- Roman renewal after the fall -- The dangerous idea -- Conclusion: Roman decline and fall in contemporary America. 520 $a For more than 2000 years, those wishing to rule Rome and leaders inspired by their example have claimed they, and only they, could restore their society's past glory and make it great again. They left millions of victims in their wake. 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. 651 0 $a Rome $x Historiography. 651 0 $a Rome $x History $y Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. 941 $a 3 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041909.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20221221010128.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20211002012627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7365C62234811ECBAAFE49D31ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search