The London Review of Books
Vol. 44 No. 16 · 18 August 2022

This is the end
Robert Cioffi

Apocalypse and Golden Age:
The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought
by Christopher Star.
Johns Hopkins, 320 pp., £40.50

The year 2000 has come and gone; we survived the Maya apocalypse of
2012. Portents of our demise now come most often in the form of UN
climate reports, the Doomsday Clock or the pronouncements of
epidemiologists. These predictions reveal not only the fragility of
our existence, but also our capacity to bring about potentially
catastrophic changes to life on earth. Yet humanity’s concern for the
end of the world is nothing new.

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