UID:
almafu_9960963716602883
Format:
1 online resource (319 pages)
ISBN:
9781421441641
Content:
"This book investigates the various ways that ancient Greek and Roman authors envisioned the end of the world and the role they gave to global catastrophes, both past and future, in shaping human history"--
Note:
From Hesiod to Hellenistic Philosophy -- Lucretius and Cicero: The End of the World at the End of the Roman Republic -- Golden Age, Apocalypse, and the Age of Augustus -- Visions of the Origin and End of Humanity in Seneca the Younger -- Tyranny and Apocalypse? Seneca's Thyestes and Lucan's Civil War -- After the Fall: The End of the World in Pseudo-Seneca Epigrams 1, Octavia, and Hercules Oetaeus.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Star, Christopher Apocalypse and Golden Age Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2021 ISBN 9781421441634
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
