Author: Edward Gibbon

Cited by

• Chet Williamson (1)
  • IN: Reign (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all arts, the most difficult was the art of reigning.
    FROM: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (1776), Book, UK
• Philip Meyer (1)
  • IN: The Son (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind... ... its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown Barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa. ... the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works... buries empires and cities in a common grave.
    FROM: The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, (1789), Book, UK