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  2. Ages of Man - Wikipedia

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    The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation. Both Hesiod and Ovid offered accounts of the successive ages of humanity, which tend to progress from an original, long-gone age in which humans enjoyed a nearly divine existence to the current age of the writer, in ...

  3. Greek Heroic Age - Wikipedia

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    The Greek Heroic Age, in mythology, is the period between the coming of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek warriors' return from Troy. [1] The poet Hesiod ( fl. c. 700 BCE ) identified this mythological era as one of his five Ages of Man .

  4. Golden Age - Wikipedia

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    The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (Greek: χρύσεον γένος chrýseon génos) [1] lived.

  5. Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.

  6. Family tree of the Greek gods - Wikipedia

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    Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.

  7. Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus) - Wikipedia

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    The title page of Étienne Clavier's 1805 edition and French translation of the Bibliotheca. The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD. [1]

  8. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Chalcolithic (or "Eneolithic", "Copper Age") Ancient history (The Bronze and Iron Ages are not part of prehistory for all regions and civilizations who had adopted or developed a writing system.) Bronze Age; Iron Age; Late Middle Ages. Renaissance; Early modern history; Modern history. Industrial Age (1760–1970) Machine Age (1880–1945) Age ...

  9. Griechische und römische Götter- und Heldensage - Wikipedia

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    Griechische und römische Götter- und Heldensage (English: Greek and Roman mythology) is a book written by Hermann Steuding (1850-1917), which was published 1897 in Leipzig by G.J. Göschen. This book is a second edition of the original work "Griechische und römische Mythologie" published in 1892.