Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture

Author
Not available
Publisher
Routledge
Published
20241227
ISBN
9781032814469
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-1)

Description

This book offers a fresh look at Hesiod’s concept of a ‘Golden Age’. It analyses the ways in which classical philosophers explored it and traces the many creative interactions with it in literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Goethe as well as Chinese literature.