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The first extant account of the successive
ages of mankind comes from Works and Days of the Greek poet Hesiod.
His list is:
Golden Age
The
Golden Age is the only age that
falls within the rule of Kronos.
Molded out of the earth through the
hands of Prometheus, these
humans were said to live among
the gods, and freely mingled with them.
Peace and
harmony prevailed during this age.
People did not labor to
feed themselves, earth provided abundant food.
They lived to a
youthful old age and eventually died peacefully.
Their spirits live on
as "guardians".
Plato in
Cratylus recounts the golden race of men who came first.
He
clarifies that Hesiod did not mean men literally made of gold, but
good and noble.
He
describes these men as daemons upon the
earth.
Since daimones is derived from
daemones, meaning knowing or wise, they are
beneficent,
preventing ills, and
guardians of
mortals.
Silver
Age
The Silver Age and every age that follows fall within the
rule of the successor and son of Kronos,
Zeus.
Zeus carved
these humans out of the Ash tree.
Men
lived for one hundred years
under the dominion of their mothers.
They lived only a short time
as grown adults, and spent that time in strife.
When men refused to
worship the gods Zeus destroyed them for
impiety.
After death, humans of this age became "blessed spirits" of the
underworld.
Bronze Age
Men
of the Bronze Age were hardened,
war was their purpose and
passion.
Their arms and tools were forged of bronze as was their
chainmaille.
The men of this Age were undone by
their own violent ways and left no named spirits; instead, they dwell in the
"dank house of Hades".
This Age came to an end with the
Flood of Deucalion.
Heroic Age
The Heroic Age is the one
age that does not correspond with any metal.
It is also the only age
that improves upon the age it follows.
These humans were forged from
the bones of the earth (stones) through the actions of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
In this period men lived with noble demigods and
heroes.
It was the heroes
of this Age who fought at Thebes and Troy.
This race of humans died and
went to Elysium.
Iron Age
Hesiod finds
himself in the Iron
Age.
During this age humans live
an existence of toil and
misery.
Children dishonor
their parents, brother fights with brother.
The
social contract between
guest and host (xenia) is forgotten.
Might makes
right, and bad men use
lies to be thought good.
People no longer feel shame or
indignation at wrongdoing.
Babies will be born with
gray hair and the gods will have
completely forsaken humanity: "there will be no help against
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