The seventh book of the Divinae Institutiones provides a detailed panorama of the end of the world from a millenarian point of view, with numerous references that Lactantius takes from various sources. It is a characteristic feature of the African author the assimilation of ideas of different origine, including classical Latin authors such as Cicero or Virgil. This work analyzes how Lactantius inserts these references, and in particular the quotes of Virgil, in the millenarian description of the end of the world. The observation of de souls in the river Lethe illustrates the relationship between the neo-platonic and Christian views of the soul. The description of the golden age in Eclogue 4 according to the verses of the Cumaean Sibyl is equated with the thousand years of hapiness after the final judgment.... [Leer más...]