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Golden Age Everlasting spring, streams of milk and nectar flowed, and honey was distilled from the oak. No law was necessary. No war was necessary. No one believes in it. The Golden Age of mortal people was wonderful. They extended friendship to all mortals and respect to all immortals. They lived without disease or hardship. When it came time for them to die, they laid down to sleep and awoke as a blessed spirit, roaming the earth and doing good deeds for all the righteous souls they meet. Silver Age Worse than its predecessor Destroyed by Zeus The Age of Bronze Mortals were made from the ash spear. Men of warcraft and violence Extinguished themselves and Hesiod does not say if they were turned into spirits. The Age of Heroes Made by Zeus Age of Blood and Glory Sons and daughters of the immortals populated the earth alongside the mere mortals Nobler and more righteous: a god-like race of heroes, called demigods The pawns of Heroes and the toys of the immortals. Zeus established a godly domain for the spirits for the deceased heroes at the end of the world. Zeus also released his father Cronos from Tartaros to join the heroes in their paradise. Iron Age The age of Hesiod (800 B.C.) and also the age we live in now. We are doomed to hardship and finally, pitiless destruction. “men never rest from labor and sorrow by day , and from perishing by night. Modesty, truth, and faith leave the earth, and in their place come tricks, plots, traps, violence, and unbridled love of profit…. Gaea (Gaia) prophetic powersDaphnis [a Mountain Nymph (Oread)] ThemisPhoebePhoebus Apollo * Lecture 2 Greek Mythology I Ancient Greek Civilizations Readings Creation of Human Beings Theogony Twelve major Gods and goddesses I. Ancient Greek Civilizations Minoan Civilization (Cretan Civilization; 3000—1100 B.C.) Mycenean Civilization (fall 1300—1000 B.C.) II. Readings 汉语译本 1。周作人译本 《希腊神话》，北师大图书馆 2。杨周翰译本 《变形记》，人民文学出版社 楚图南译本 《希腊神话和传说》 [德国] 斯威布 人民文学出版社 1959年、2003年版 定价：26元 罗念生