The long life of the death of the Roman Empire. by This Is Hell! published on 2021-08-28T17:07:23Z Historian Edward J. Watts on the political use of declinist rhetoric around the Roman Empire - from Rome itself to the American present - and his book "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome-9780190076719?cc=us&lang=en&