I see. I have read the Confessions but not City Of God, I will do that.
Rome’s fall was a slow dissolution. It’s regrettable that Roman (or Latin) writers paid so little attention to the common people and what was happening with them at the time. But it was certainly apocalyptic.
As for current post-apocalypse novels, it would seem they would become more popular with the general reading public with our current administration. I wish you good fortune with your studies.
As to the post to you below I will also order Farnham’s Freehold.
The subject interests me also.
One of my favorite stories from ancient history is the unsparing, clinical dissection of a dying culture, being driven into the ground by a leadership clique and its media sycophants. The anatomist is a Greek physician and meticulous historian. The villains include the quisling puppet rulers and religious hucksters of various shades. As the culture thrashes around in desperation, bizarre supernatural phenomena proliferate. This society misses the last exit before catastrophe, and has never recovered. The tragedy is, the leaders were more worried about protecting their own status than they were about their nation's survival.
I'm referring, of course, to the Gospel of Luke and Acts.