Apocalypse and Golden Age by Christopher Star;

Author:Christopher Star;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

In this analysis of the flood, we have focused on the many layers that are contained in Seneca’s narrative. He engages with the doxographical tradition about world destruction. This point offers us some insight into the larger debates about the end of the world that have now been entirely lost to us. Seneca’s brief mention of the ideas of Fabianus, who was one of his teachers, and of Berossus, who was credited with making Babylonian knowledge available to the Greeks and Romans, suggests that interest in different end-of-the-world scenarios was more of a widespread topic than the surviving literature suggests. Seneca is also closely engaged with Lucretius and Ovid, as well as his own prediction in Medea. There are two interrelated themes from Seneca’s account that deserve further elaboration before we bring this chapter to a close: spectatorship and politics. These two themes are crucial for understanding larger points about how this passage from Natural Questions fits into the wider context of Seneca’s thought and how it might relate to modern ideas about catastrophes and sovereignty.

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