This text seeks to discuss some semantic aspects of the concept of end
specifically applied to the pre-classical world. Political chronology with its
correspondent historiography is the obvious beginning, for practical, methodological,
academic and historiographic reasons. Nevertheless, in contrast with
this restrictive but very common perspective, our analysis turns to other cultural
aspects, beyond political history, namely those of literature, religion and
civilisational inheritance.
This text seeks to discuss some semantic aspects of the concept of end
specifically applied to the pre-classical world. Political chronology with its
correspondent historiography is the obvious beginning, for practical, methodological,
academic and historiographic reasons. Nevertheless, in contrast with
this restrictive but very common perspective, our analysis turns to other cultural
aspects, beyond political history, namely those of literature, religion and
civilisational inheritance.
