Post by london777 on May 28, 2020 2:24:45 GMT
The Western Roman Empire did not fall for another three hundred or so years after the time in which this film was set, and the Eastern Roman Empire for another twelve hundred or so years.
Mann was inspired by Edward Gibbon's six-volume series The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire which was adapted by blacklisted screenwriters Ben Barzman & Philip Yordan, the prologue was written by historian Will Durant.
You are right. This period saw its onset. Guys like Nero, Tiberius, Caligula (and a few dozen others) were not corrupt and decadent at all, then?
Actually the fall of Rome was due to population movements and climate change.
Edward Gibbon's six-volume series The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire which was adapted by blacklisted screenwriters Ben Barzman & Philip Yordan
I am sure they studied every page of its six volumes religiously. Gibbon was an Old Boy of my school, and I had the brief honor of being secretary of the Gibbon Society, a debating society. Because of my fecklessness it was shaping up to be the only school year with no debates organized , so I was persuaded to resign. "Et tu, Ffolliott Minor?"