Seneca’s Work on the Eschatological View
Introduction Seneca’s writing repeatedly imagines worlds under pressure: cities fall, dynasties collapse, passions overturn households, and nature itself threatens to dissolve the boundaries on which human order depends. These images can be described as eschatological when they concern an ending of the present world or a radical transition beyond it. Yet Seneca’s eschatology is not identical to the later Christian idea of one final judgment followed by an eternal new
Editorial Staff
April 14, 2018
