How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral traditions. It is also argued that practically no one living under Rome's rule, including the Romans themselves, did not think about the question in one form or another.
Author(s): Jonathan J. Price, Katell Berthelot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 320
City: Cambridge
Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Some Remarks on Cicero’s Perception of the Future of Rome
Chapter 2 Eclogue 4 and the Futures of Rome
Chapter 3 Imperium sine fine: Rome’s Future in Augustan Epic
Chapter 4 Posterity in the Arval Acta
Chapter 5 The Future of Rome in Three Greek Historians of Rome
Chapter 6 Philo on the Impermanence of Empires
Chapter 7 From Human Freedom to Divine Intervention: Agrippa II’s Address on the Eve of the Jewish War
Chapter 8 Josephus, Caligula and the Future of Rome
Chapter 9 “Will This One Never Be Brought Down?”: Jewish Hopes for the Downfall of the Roman Empire
Chapter 10 The Sibylline Oracles and Resistance to Rome
Chapter 11 Revelation 17.1–19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome
Chapter 12 Cicero and Vergil in the Catacombs: Pagan Messianism and Monarchic Propaganda in Constantine’s Oration to the Assembly of Saints
Chapter 13 The Future of Rome after 410 CE: The Latin Conceptions (410–480 CE)
Appendix
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index of Names and Places
