oliver goldsmith

[Starling]

is a well-loved author & playwright, but did he or a namesake also write A History of the Roman Empire? Online is very confused about this!

And when exactly ws it first published?

[biblophile]

he did write a few works on classical history, however you might be thinking of Gibbon's The Rise and fall of the Roman Empire

[Jackson Richardson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_E mpire