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Apocalypse and golden age : the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought
- Title
- Apocalypse and golden age : the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought / Christopher Star.
- Author
- Star, Christopher
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and indexes.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1888
- ISBN
- 9781421441634
- 1421441632
- LCCN
- 2021006367
- OCLC
- 1237750518
- Author
- Star, Christopher, author.
- Title
- Apocalypse and golden age : the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought / Christopher Star.
- Publisher
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Description
- viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and indexes.
- Summary
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781421441641
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1888