While we often look to the past for an example of a better world, our counterparts living in the ancient world did the same, viewing even their time as a fallen one, ruled by greed. Greek and Roman authors such as Hesiod and Ovid detailed the decay of the world from original perfection in the myth of the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages, and the philosophy of Plato, in his Statesman dialogue, leans upon the myth of the ages in its metaphysics. If we seek to understand the myth of the ages through mythology and philosophy, we find practical advice for hopeful living in our own lives, even in a world that feels fallen and broken.
Mythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.”
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00:00 Introduction
00:12 Roman Mosaic Depicting Anaximander with Sundial
00:20 Hesiod’s Works and Days from Biblioteca Marciana
00:55 The Creation by James Tissot
01:16 The First Transformation
01:32 Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the European Library of Information and Culture
02:00 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I
03:13 Booroobin Sunshine Coast Australia by Jordan Condon, licensed under Creative Commons
03:31 Star Map by Elizabeth Shurtleff
03:40 The Golden Age
04:01 The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder
04:15 The Golden Age by Frans Francken the Younger et. al.
04:26 Spring by Jean-Jacques Le Veau after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
04:50 Funerary Stele of Demokleides, photographed by Furius, licensed under Creative Commons
04:54 Hesiod, Works and Days
05:11 Nothing Gold Can Stay
05:15 Titan Struck by Lightning by François Dumont
05:36 Winter by Jean-Jacques Le Veau after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
05:50 Agricultural Calendar by Master of the Geneva Boccaccio
08:58 Title Page to 1539 Edition of Hesiod’s Works and Days
06:20 The Souls of Acheron by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl
06:34 Achilles’ Sacrifice of Trojan Prisoners from the François Tomb
07:09 The Iron Age by Jan Collaert II et. al.
07:22 The Iron Age by Jean-Jacques Le Veau after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
07:32 The Age of Iron by Paolo Fiammingo
07:40 Illustration from Griffith’s Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain
07:59 The Close of the Silver Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder
08:19 Justice by Raphael
08:26 Truth at the Bottom of a Well by Jean-Léon Gérome
09:06 The Changing Ages
09:16 Two Young Men Hunting a Deer by the Dokimasia Painter
09:26 Artemis Kaurotrophos from Archaeological Museum of Brauron
09:40 Page of the Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39, Dialogue Politikos
10:16 Saturnus by Jan Van Vianen
10:28 Jupiter on his Eagle Enthroned in the Clouds by Stradanus
10:55 The Age of Bronze by Paolo Fiammingo
11:42 The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole
12:18 The Golden Age by Hendrick van der Borcht the Elder
12:36 The Stars Above
12:58 The Golden Age by Abraham Bloemaert
13:22 The Age of Gold by Jacopo Zucchi
13:38 Booroobin Sunshine Coast Australia photographed by Jordan Condon, licensed under Creative Commons
13:55 Astronomy Amateur by Halfblue, licensed under Creative Commons
14:29 The Age of Gold by José Manuel Félix Magdalena, licensed under Creative Commons
All works of art are in the public domain unless otherwise noted.
Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
