Ages of Man
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The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Golden Age
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Silver Age
John Simon, The Brazen Age
Virgil Solis, The Iron Age
Hesiod
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Hesiod was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Ages of Man
…The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation. Both Hesiod and Ovid offered accounts of the successive ages of humanity, which tend to progress from an original, long-gone age in which humans enjoyed a nearly…
A possible imaginative depiction of Hesiod (Roman copy of a Greek original)
Hesiod and the Muse (1891), by Gustave Moreau. The poet is presented with a lyre, in contradiction to the account given by Hesiod himself, in which the gift was a laurel staff.
The Dance of the Muses at Mount Helicon by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1807). Hesiod cites inspiration from the Muses while on Mount Helicon.
Modern Mount Helicon. Hesiod once described his nearby hometown, Ascra, as "cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant."