Sobre o fim do mundo pré-clássico

Abstract

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.