<Li> Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006) </Li> <P> 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". </P> <P> In 1995, an established journal of classical scholarship, Classics Ireland, published punk musician's Iggy Pop's reflections on the applicability of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the modern world in a short article, Caesar Lives, (Vol. 2, 1995) in which he noted "America is Rome . Of course, why shouldn't it be? We are all Roman children, for better or worse...I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system - origins - military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial - are all there to be scrutinised in their infancy . I have gained perspective ." </P> <P>' Decline and fall' and' rise and fall', and wordplay thereon, have become characteristic formulae in British culture, as seen in the titles of works such as Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall (1928), David Bowie's 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and David Nobbs' series of novels The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin which were later turned into a television sitcom . </P>

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