Apocalypse and Golden Age : The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought

作者：ChristopherStar

出版社：JohnHopkinsUniversityPress

副标题：TheEndoftheWorldinGreekandRomanThought

出版年：2021

页数：320

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9781421441634

内容简介
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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.

Greek and Roman visions of the end, Star argues, are not calls to renounce this world and prepare for a future kingdom. Rather, they are set within larger investigations that examine and seek to improve personal and political life in the present. Contextualizing classical thought about the apocalypse with biblical studies, Star shows that the seeds of our contemporary anxieties about globalization, politics, and technology were sown during the Roman period. Even the prevalent link between an earthly leader and the beginning of the end times can be traced back to Greek and Roman rulers, the emperor Nero in particular. Apocalypse and Golden Age enriches our understanding of apocalyptic thought.

作者简介
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Christopher Star is a professor of classics at Middlebury College. He is the author of The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius and Seneca.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. From Hesiod to Hellenistic Philosophy

2. Lucretius and Cicero: The End of the World at the End of the Roman Republic

3. Golden Age, Apocalypse, and the Age of Augustus

4. Visions of the Origin and End of Humanity in Seneca the Younger

5. Tyranny and Apocalypse? Seneca's Thyestes and Lucan's Civil War

6. After the Fall: The End of the World in Pseudo-Seneca Epigrams 1, Octavia, and Hercules Oetaeus

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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作为第一部系统考虑古代世界怎么看以及怎么写apocalypse的书，这本书确实实现了填补这方面研究空缺的目的；但比起来给出一个完整的观察结论，这本书做得更好的是追踪和梳理整个idea在古代传承和演进的进程。 尤其是，这本书标题上并列的是apocalypse和golden age，但第一两者的关注和着笔并不平衡（关注的作家和时代也是）；第二十并没有解释两者之间的关系到底何在（除了部分章节之外，当然这…

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