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13786189 No.13786189 [Reply] [Original]

Who were the writers in the final days of Rome when it was collapsing?

I've heard that there were people who were predicting the fall of Rome before it began to happen, I wanted to see how similarly they lined up with what people today are saying about the decline of the USA

>> No.13786254
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>> No.13786279

>>13786254
>plastic k-sexdolls
Yikes!

>> No.13786322

>>13786189
Augustine, I think?
Boethius was writing after the Roman Empire fell.

But this interests me, as well. Cicero also lived in a decadent era (the fall of the Republic).

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>>13786189
The amount of onions in that picture is disgusting.

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>>13786279
Hey, twice are good girls

>>13786322
I thought Augustine wrote after it fell? I've got his book on my shelf I'll have to read it

>> No.13786349

America isn't Rome, it's Carthage

>> No.13786357

>>13786189
Nigga on the right with no glasses looks like he fucks all the others’ female friends

>> No.13786529

>>13786327
He lived while Rome was falling.

>> No.13786733

Lots of Christian writers/theologians
Eusebius, tertullian, ambrose, plotinus

>> No.13787323

Orosius was a contemporary of Augustine and wrote a history book. Macrobius' "Saturnalia" was written near the end too and takes the form of a dinner party discussion about Roman traditions and culture. Sidonius Apollinaris was writing during the collapse - his letters are interesting insight imo.

As for predicting the fall, Augustine says Rome is destined to fall (and contrasts this with the heavenly city of God that will last forever) whereas Ammianus Marcellinus describes Rome as the eternal city in his history iirc (though that was written before the Goths started attacking) so opinions were mixed. As for others it appears to mostly be Christians and pagans blaming each other for the gods/God abandoning them.

>> No.13788637

>bro the fall of Rome is just like current times
>it's gonna happen any day now

Hate to burst your bubble, but it ain't happening, my guy.

>> No.13788665

Ausonius

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>>13786189
Rome was shit.

I'm glad it's gone.

>> No.13788823

>>13788637
It has already happened, my guy. You people suicided your own civilization through feminism and low birth rates.

No, robots aren't going to save you.

>> No.13788835

>>13788707
This is so gay and retarded. The barbarians were massacring Romans and sacking cities (especially putting effort into toppling useless status for shits and giggles) with their dicks and balls flopping around? 19th century academic art was such cancer.

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>>13786189
Books that explain who is responsible for the destruction of western man?

>> No.13788879

>>13788835
Get a load of this guy

>> No.13788911

De rebus bellicis