using "Rise and Fall" in place of "Decline and Fall"), especially when dealing with a large polity that has imperial characteristics. Piers Brendon notes that Gibbon's work "became the essential guide for Britons anxious to plot their own imperial trajectory. They found the key to understanding the British Empire in the ruins of Rome." and in film: The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Anthony Mann The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), Penelope Spheeris The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Denys Arcand and in television: Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006) and in video games: Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War (2006) Civilization VI: Rise and Fall (2018) and in music: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), David Bowie 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". Feminist science fiction author Sheri S. Tepper gave one of her novels the title Gibbon's Decline and Fall. In 1995, an established journal of classical scholarship, Classics Ireland, published punk musician 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 asserted: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. See also Fall of the Western Roman Empire Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire William Strahan (publisher), who also first printed The Wealth of Nations (1776) Notes References Further reading Brownley, Martine W. "Appearance and Reality in Gibbon's History," Journal of the History of Ideas 38:4 (1977), 651–666. Brownley, Martine W. "Gibbon's Artistic and Historical Scope in the Decline and Fall," Journal of the History of Ideas 42:4 (1981), 629–642. Cosgrove, Peter. Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of