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02124aam a2200385 i 4500 001 3ED7268C072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210210t20212021mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021006367 020 $a 1421441632 020 $a 9781421441634 035 $a (OCoLC)1237750518 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d UKMGB $d JHE $d CDX $d YDX $d NVS $d OCLCO $d JNA $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PA3013 $b .S728 2021 082 00 $a 880.09 $2 23 100 1 $a Star, Christopher, $e author. 245 10 $a Apocalypse and golden age : $b the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought / $c Christopher Star. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 306 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and indexes. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Greek literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a End of the world in literature. 650 0 $a Latin literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Apocalypse in literature. 650 7 $a Latin literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993331 650 7 $a Greek literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00947441 650 7 $a End of the world in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00909643 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031440.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3ED7268C072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search