I concur, and if you want the full story you'll want to start with Michael Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ http://th

I concur, and if you want the full story you'll want to start with Michael Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ Pierson describes in the first episode how he was inspired to pickup where Duncan left off at the fall of the western empire.