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Ovid - The Ages of Mankind - Coggle Diagram
Ovid - The Ages of Mankind
Four Distinct Ages of Mankind Before the Flooding of the Earth
Golden Age
No law, good faith and righteousness
"no penalties engraved on plates of bronze"
no farming, all food provided
"nature's food unforced"
No seasons, spring year round
No war
No clothing
No shelter needed
No travel or ships
"No pine had yet...descended to the sea to find strange lands"(ships)
Silver Age
Creation of four seasons
Introduction of Clothing
Need for shelter
Need for farming
Bronze Age
Honorable war, justified conflict
"readily disposed to war, yet free of wickedness"
heroic warfare
Iron age
"Evil straight broke out"
Disrespect of family
"friend was not safe from friend, nor father safe from son-in-law"
Greed/corruption
"truth and loyalty replaced by fraud, deceit and treachery"
mining
Scarring the landscape
sailing/ships, travel
Dishonourable murder
Giants attempted to invade Olympus, Zeus fought them off, their bodies became mountains
Upon witnessing the terrible evils of mankind in the Iron Age, especially Lycaon, Jupiter decides that humanity must be destroyed
"when no cure avails, rightly the knife is used lest the disease spread"
Jupiter states he has never felt more nervous for the world even when serpent footed giants sought to take Olympus
This is because with the giants the conflict came from one source, but evil was throughout humanity
Lycaon was evil, cruel
When Zeus turned up to Lycaon's palace, everyone recognised and revered him, except Lycaon
Lycaon arranged Zeus to be killed in his sleep to prove his godly status
Also tried to feed Zeus the human flesh of one of his slaves
Zeus proceeded to tear down his palace and turn Lycaon into a wolf, keeping the same snarl and wolfish face
Jupiter decides to destroy mankind and replace it with a race of marvellous birth