The Return of the Golden Age from Antiquity to the 21st Century

Receptions of a Classical Motif

376 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book represents the first reception history of the classical myth of the "Golden Age" from Antiquity up until the present. The introduction proposes "Golden Age thinking" as a set of connected ideas about the flexible organization of time, morality and divine interventions. The case-studies reveal the different ways this has been and still is being used to promote a particular vision of the future by connecting it to an idealized vision of a lost past. Together they offer a toolkit for understanding this motif's enduring power, and reconstruct the trajectory during which Greco-Roman antiquity, from being the origin of the Golden Age myth, was transformed into a kind of Golden Age itself.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9789004762831
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2026
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill