The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey. In the Silver Age, whic...
A.S. Byatt
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nostalgia, childhood, freud, infantile, prehistory, golden age, victorians, hesiod, silver age
The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any sort of worship upon the countries it conquered and civilized; in fact, quite the contrary, Rome wa...
Gore Vidal
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religion, philosophy, paganism, ecumenism, eclecticism, julian, hellenism, 362, formalism, mystery religions