IDEAS OF CYCLICITY OF PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT IN WORKS OF ANTIQUE ROME THINKERS
On the base of written monuments, the article analyzes the teachings of the greatest Antique Rome thinkers. It gives the analysis of concepts that have relevant meaning for further forming of theoretical bases of cyclical processes in political science. The analysis involves the creative heritage of Varro, Vergilius, Horatius, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Ovidius, Porphyry, Plotinus, Sallustius, Seneca, Flor, Censorinus, Cicero, Epictetus. Formingof philosophers’ ideas about cyclical processes was going not only under the influence of philosophical teachings of Antique Greece and personal experience, but also historical and political factors. In their works we can trace the transfer from cyclical to linear approach of explaining the events in society. Linear concepts were variousin contents, but they have not reached the level of integral models yet. In the works of Ancient Rome thinkers they frequently went along with the elements of cyclical concepts.