Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman ThoughtJHU Press, 7 בדצמ׳ 2021 - 320 עמודים How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and the forces of nature play in bringing about the end of the world? In Apocalypse and Golden Age, Christopher Star reveals the answers that Greek and Roman authors gave to these questions. The first large-scale investigation of the various scenarios for the end of the world in classical texts, this book demonstrates that key thinkers often viewed their world as shaped by catastrophe. Star focuses on how this theme was explored over the centuries in the works of poets, such as Hesiod, Vergil, Ovid, and Lucan, and by philosophers, including the Presocratics, Plato, Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, and Seneca. With possibilities ranging from periodic terrestrial catastrophes to the total dissolution of the world, these scenarios address the ultimate limits that define human life and institutions, and place humanity in the long perspective of cosmic and natural history. These texts also explore various options for the rebirth of society after world catastrophe, such as a return of the Golden Age or the redevelopment of culture and political institutions. |
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Introduction | 1 |
1 From Hesiod to Hellenistic Philosophy | 13 |
The End of the World at the End of the Roman Republic | 47 |
3 Golden Age Apocalypse and the Age of Augustus | 75 |
4 Visions of the Origin and End of Humanity in Seneca the Younger | 127 |
5 Tyranny and Apocalypse? Senecas Thyestes and Lucans Civil War | 157 |
The End of the World in PseudoSeneca Epigrams 1 Octavia and Hercules Oetaeus | 191 |
Epilogue | 220 |
Notes | 229 |
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