Fine dell'impero romano ed escatologia

In this paper ancient topics about the end of the world are investigated: the\r\neternity of the world according to the pagan philosophers, the eternity of Rome and its empire,\r\nthe waiting for a new golden age according to the senatorial milieu of the Historia Augusta\r\nand, on the contrary, the waiting for the Antichrist and a next end of the world according to\r\nmany Christian authors, the refusal of the Church of Rome (from Eusebius to Augustine) to\r\naccept this perspective and its reappearance in peripheral areas (Fulgentius in Africa, Hydatius\r\nin Spain) and also in Gaul (Sulpicius Severus), while the Roman empire was collapsing