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Christopher Star

Professor of Classics, Middlebury College, Vermont

Christopher Star is professor of Classics at Middlebury College, Vermont. His most recent book is Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought (2021).

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Painting of a chaotic ancient city in flames, with a large statue and crowds fleeing across a bridge over a turbulent sea.

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How the ancient philosophers imagined the end of the world

How the ancient Greeks and Romans imagined the end of the world, and what we can learn from them today about catastrophe

by Christopher Star