The Future of Rome : Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions /
Edited by Jonathan J. Price (Tel-Aviv University), Katell Berthelot (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris).
Bok Engelsk 2020
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| Opplysninger | "Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.". - Some remarks on Cicero's perception of the future of Rome / Carlos Lévy -- Eclogue 4 and the Futures of Rome / Brian W. Breed -- Imperium sine fine: Rome's Future in Augustan Epic / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov -- Posterity in the Arval Acta / Greg Woolf -- The Future of Rome in Three Greek Historians of Rome / Jonathan J. Price -- Philo on the Impermanence of Empires / Katell Berthelot -- From Human Freedom to Divine Intervention: Agrippa II's Address on the Eve of the Jewish War / Samuele Rocca -- Josephus, Caligula and the Future of Rome / Jonathan Davies -- "Will this one never be brought down?": Reflections of Jewish hopes for the downfall of the Roman Empire in biblical exegesis / Vered Noam -- The Sibylline Oracles and Resistance to Rome / Erich S. Gruen -- Revelation 17.1-19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome / Peter Oakes -- Cicero and Virgil in the Catacombs: Pagan Messianism and Monarchic Propaganda in Constantine's "Oration to the Assembly of Saints" / Marko Marinčič -- The Future of Rome after 410 CE: The Latin Conceptions / Hervé Inglebert -- Appendix.. - "Cicero is often perceived as someone who lived intensely in the present moment, as he did during Catilinarian conspiracy, for example, or the outbreak of the civil war. He is also said to have had a knack for nostalgia. While in exile and during the civil war, he spent a great deal of time deploring his former glory. He is less known for his contemplation on Rome's future"--
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