Ages of Humanity: Gold, Iron, and the Greek Imagination of Decline

A family disputes a measure of grain while an old singer tells of worlds made from gold, silver, bronze, heroic courage, and iron. Can a story of decline expose injustice without becoming an excuse for it?The Ages of Humanity retells Hesiod's five generations through original English literary prose and a contemporary-to-the-myth household frame. Golden ease, silver dependence, bronze violence, the...