Decadence was a late-19th-century movement emphasizing the need for sensationalism, egocentricity, and bizarre, artificial, perverse, and exotic sensations...

Roman decadence refers to the popular criticism of the culture of the later Roman Empire's elites, seen also in much of its earlier historiography and...

The Romans in their Decadence (French: Les Romains de la décadence, also translated as Romans During the Decadence or Romans in the Decadence of the Empire)...

the Enlightenment philosopher who suggested that the decline (décadence) of the Roman Empire was in large part due to its moral decay and loss of cultural...

militarily passive. Cassius Dio identifies his reign as the beginning of Roman decadence: "(Rome has transformed) from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and...

Website of De Imperatoribus Romanis Decadence, Rome and Romania, and the Emperors Who Weren't, and Other Reflections on Roman History, by Kelley L. Ross...

private collection Photogravure (1896) at musée provincial Félicien Rops Roman decadence Leblanc, Véronique (1997). "Pornocratès, 1878. In "Félicien Rops: life...

the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (French: Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence) is an 18th-century...

several medals for his works, in particular for his masterpiece, Romans During the Decadence (1847). Shortly after this success, Couture opened an independent...

full of vice, corruption, and decadence. The situation of the Romans and Rome began to change rapidly and many local Roman traditions disappeared. It was...

portrays Pilate as completely covered with gold and rings as a sign of Roman decadence. The 1959 film Ben-Hur shows Pilate (the Australian actor, Frank Thring...

US, Vintage Books/Random House, ISBN 0-375-70544-9, trade paperback Roman Decadence Stand on Zanzibar - 1968 novel by John Brunner involving similar caste-basted...

L'Empire romain. Évolution et décadence[usurped], Flammarion, Paris, 1922, vol. II, chapter 2. Rémond, p. 125 The Later Roman Empire, A. H. M. Jones 1964;...

period depicted in the film, but rather to the onset of corruption and decadence which led to Rome's demise. It deals extensively with the problem of imperial...

Complete Roman Army (2003) Adrian Goldsworthy, a British military historian, sees the causes of the collapse of the Roman Empire not in any 'decadence' in...

suggested that Pelagianism in Britain was understood as an attack on Roman decadence and corruption, but this idea has not gained general acceptance. The...

The Age of Decadence is a role-playing video game for Microsoft Windows developed by Iron Tower Studio, led by the pseudonymous "Vince D. Weller". Set...

side of the revolution". Gobineau wrote: Our poor country lies in Roman decadence. Where there is no longer an aristocracy worthy of itself, a nation...

modern perception of Roman sexual decadence can be traced to early Christian polemic, see Alastair J. L. Blanshard, "Roman Vice," in Sex: Vice and Love from...

Caledonian and Roman society. Dio presents the account with a traditional topos, contrasting the vigorous virtue of barbarian life with Roman decadence ...a very...

with female admirers, which Lennon later likened to the scenes of Roman decadence in Frederico Fellini's film Satyricon. When the group toured Australia...

this is presented as further evidence of his notorious decadence. Moral dimensions aside, Roman importation and expenditure on silk represented a significant...

is included on WWE Home Video's 2008 retrospective, Edge: A Decade of Decadence. From March to June 1998, Copeland appeared in many house shows and dark...

that promising the people effortless prosperity may lead to "late Roman decadence", in reference to a verdict in the Federal Constitutional Court of...

conquest of the colony fiesolana favorable to the party of Mario. The decadence of Fiesole after 80 B.C., gave, probably, a new impulse to the settlement...

commerce, but to nourish him." Shaped by Tacitus and his condemnations of Roman decadence, Bonald felt that economic liberalism and unrestrained wealth would...

as forgery. The prophecy concludes with a pope identified as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will allegedly precede the destruction of the city of...

denordification (Entnordung in German) is the racial counterpart of the political decadence experienced by peoples throughout their history. The concept was coined...

The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Songs (carmen) were an integral part of almost every social occasion...

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life is a book written by Jacques Barzun. Published in 2000, it is a large-scale survey history...