decline and fall

Where the first book offered an almost relentlessly grim depiction of decline and fall, the new one gives us a more granular, detailed look at how different societies coped with the transformations of the Late Bronze Age collapse in contrasting ways.

Also Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel, “Decline and Fall,” and A.A.

His most recent role was as Ted Kennedy, the former US senator and brother of assassinated president John F Kennedy, in the 2017 television mini-series The Kennedys: Decline and Fall.

There’s actually some solace in reading about, say, the decline and fall of empires from earlier times.

Given the opportunities for sex and sensationalism, the Roman Empire in its rise, decline and fall has had a healthy life on the screen, going back to the silent era on the big screen, and including BBC’s “I, Claudius,” a PBS favorite over here, HBO’s “Rome” and Starz’s multiple “Spartacus” series on the small.