The eternal decline and fall of Rome: the history of a dangerous idea
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 discussio...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| 520 | 3 | |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. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a 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. | |
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Map of the Roman Empire at Its Greatest Extent in the Second Century AD xiii Introduction: A Snapshot and a Story і 1. Decline in the Roman Republic 7 2. The Republic ofViolence and the Empire of Peace 16 3. Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan 29 4. Renewal without Decline: The Antanines and Severans 40 5. Decline and False Renewal: The Third-Century Crisis S3 6. Decline, Renewal, and the Invention of Christian Progress 67 7. Roman Renewal versus Christian Progress 79 8. When Renewal Fails to Arrive 89 9. The Loss of the Roman West and the Christian Future 102 10. Justinian, Roman Progress, and the Death of the Western Roman Empire 118 11. Rome, the Arabs, and Iconoclasm 135 12. Old Rome, New Rome, and Future Rome 150 13. The Retrenchment of One Roman Empire, the Resurgence of Another 14. The Captures of Constantinople 165 178 15. The Fall of Roman Constantinople and the End of Roman Renewal 192
viii Contents 16. Roman Renewal after the Fall 203 17. A Dangerous Idea 222 Conclusion: Roman Decline and Fall in Contemporary America 234 Notes 243 Index 293 |
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viii Contents 16. Roman Renewal after the Fall 203 17. A Dangerous Idea 222 Conclusion: Roman Decline and Fall in Contemporary America 234 Notes 243 Index 293 |
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| title_full | The eternal decline and fall of Rome the history of a dangerous idea Edward J. Watts |
| title_fullStr | The eternal decline and fall of Rome the history of a dangerous idea Edward J. Watts |
| title_full_unstemmed | The eternal decline and fall of Rome the history of a dangerous idea Edward J. Watts |
| title_short | The eternal decline and fall of Rome |
| title_sort | the eternal decline and fall of rome the history of a dangerous idea |
| title_sub | the history of a dangerous idea |
| topic | Niedergang (DE-588)4171847-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | Niedergang Römisches Reich |
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