Wednesday, July 23, 2025

My Parents Often Mentioned The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - by Gibbons. Didja Know?

 

  Destruction from The Course of Empire series, by Thomas Cole, 1836.
Source: New York Historical Society

Every student and parent should be aware of how close we came to this set of paintings, in our own day. Decline and Fall is still too close to reality. We live in fragile times.