What is Ages of Man?
'''Ages of Man''' is an [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[myth]] that divides the [[history]] of the [[world]] into five eras. In the first eras, [[human]]s lived close to [[gods]] and were happy. In the latest eras, the gods have left the world and humans live in pain and unhappiness. This myth was first written down by Greek poet [[Hesiod]], about 2700 years ago. # In the '''Golden Age''', humans lived together with gods in peace. [[Plato]] said that there were also [[demon]]s in this age, who were good and helped people. All of them were ruled by [[Kronos]]. # In the '''Silver Age''', humans lived for one hundred years as [[child]]ren and fought each other when they became adults. They refused to [[worship]] Kronos' son [[Zeus]], so he killed them all. # In the '''Bronze Age''', humans fought each other all the time. They have all been killed in their own [[war]]s. # In the '''Heroic Age''', [[demigods]] and [[hero]]es lived among humans. [[Perseus]], [[Heracles]], and [[Argonauts]] lived in this age. It ended after the [[Trojan War]]. # In the '''Iron Age''', gods and other supernatural beings abandoned humans. As a result, humans have forgotten their [[virtue]]s and lived in misery. It was the age when Hesiod himself lived. [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] poet [[Ovid]] also wrote about the Ages of Man about two thousand years ago, although he did not mention the Heroic Age. ==Related pages== * [[Five Suns]] * [[Yuga]] [[Category:Greek mythology]] [[Category:Roman mythology]]