Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture

Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture

Olk, Claudia; Nichols, Stephen G.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2024

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9781032814469

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List of Contributors

Preface

Claudia Olk and Stephen G. Nichols,

Introduction

Oliver Primavesi

Chapter 1: Hesiod and Empedocles on the Decline of Humankind

Stephen G. Nichols

Chapter 2: Eros and Eris in Hesiod's Myth of the Golden Age

Jack I. Abecassis

Chapter 3: In defense of the Evil Brother, an Interpretation of Hesiod's Works and Days

Daniel Heller-Roazen

Chapter 4: The Oldest Reading: Prometheus and the Arts of Divination

Brian J. Reilly

Chapter 5: "Immeasurably Preferred to Gold": The Saintly Age of Medieval Christian Salvation

Gaia Gubbini

Chapter 6: After the End: The Troubadours, the Golden Age, and a Fading Civilization

Claudia Olk

Chapter 7: 'T'excel the Golden Age': Golden Worlds in the English Renaissance

Joachim Kuepper

Chapter 8: Patriarchal Fantasies and Proto-Feminist Libertarianism: Don Quijote's Praise of the Golden Age and Marcela's Plea for Freedom

Andreas Hoefele

Chapter 9: The Golden Age Restored, London 1616: Court Entertainment and Stuart Politics

David E. Wellbery

Chapter 10: The Golden Age in the Age of Goethe

Michael Lackner

Chapter 11: One Golden Age? Or many? Chinese Conceptions of the Ideal Society

Index
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Golden Age Europe;Prometheus;Pandora;Classical Greek Literature;Hesiod;Greek Philosophy;Troubadours