The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Legacy

Legacy

Variations on the series title (including using "Rise and Fall" in place of "Decline and Fall") have been used by other writers:

• An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged. 2nd edition, 1807. 1805, William Playfair
• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1868), Jefferson Davis
• Decline and Fall (1928), Evelyn Waugh
• The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), by the satirist Will Cuppy
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959), William Shirer
• The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1961), William Shirer
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975), David Nobbs
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (1983), Malachi Martin
• Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (1986), Hans Eysenck
• The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain (2000), Neil Faulkner
• The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America (2003), David Carlin
• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (2007), Piers Brandon
• Decline and Fall of the American Republic (2010), Bruce Ackerman

and the music album:

• Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969), The Kinks
• The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), David Bowie

and the films:

• The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
• The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), Penelope Spheeris
• The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Denys Arcand

The title and author are also cited in Noël Coward's comedic poem "I Went to a Marvellous Party". And in the poem "The Foundation of Science Fiction Success", Isaac Asimov acknowledged that his Foundation series—an epic tale of the fall and rebuilding of a galactic empire—was written "with a tiny bit of cribbin' / from the works of Edward Gibbon".