History of the Roman Empire founder of the brief Flavian dynasty, to be followed by the Nerva–Antonine dynasty which produced the "Five Good Emperors": Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and the philosophically inclined Marcus Aurelius. In the view of the Greek historian Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor Commodus in 180 AD marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron"—a famous comment which has led some historians, notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 212, during the reign of Caracalla, Roman citizenship was granted
Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire by , and the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum's "The Foundations of Psychoanalysis" (1984). He accepts Elizabeth Thornton's argument, made in "Freud and Cocaine" (1983), also published as "The Freudian Fallacy", that Breuer's patient Anna O. suffered from tuberculous meningitis. "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" was first published by Viking Press in 1985. The book was published by Pelican Books in 1986. In 2004, a revised edition with a preface by Hans Eysenck's widow, Sybil Eysenck, was published by Transaction Publishers. "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" received a positive review from Paul Stuewe in "Quill & Quire", and