The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions

Berthelot, Katell, Price, Jonathan J.

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.

EAN

9781108797009

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

10 March 2022

Pages

326