The Return of the Golden Age from Antiquity to the 21st Century : Receptions of a Classical Motif / edited by Susanna de Beer, Ruben Poelstra and Louis Verreth.

Format:

Book

Series:

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 12.

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 12

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Receptions of a Classical Motif

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book represents the first reception history of the classical myth of the “Golden Age” from Antiquity up until the present. The introduction proposes “Golden Age thinking” as a set of connected ideas about the flexible organization of time, morality and divine interventions. The case-studies reveal the different ways this has been and still is being used to promote a particular vision of the future by connecting it to an idealized vision of a lost past. Together they offer a toolkit for understanding this motif’s enduring power, and reconstruct the trajectory during which Greco-Roman antiquity, from being the origin of the Golden Age myth, was transformed into a kind of Golden Age itself.

Contents:

Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Susanna de Beer

2 Time, King, and Empire: the Golden Age in Seleucid Imperial Ideology

Wouter Maassen

3 The Golden Age Deferred? The Return of a Vergilian Golden Age in Calpurnius Siculus

Matthew Payne

4 Saturnia arua : the Republic as a Pseudo-Golden Age in Silius Italicus’ Punica

Pieter van den Broek

5 A Kingdom of Gold: Cassius Dio and the Age of the Antonines

Reinier Langerak

6 How Vergil Became Christian: the Fourth Eclogue and the Imperial Court

Jeffrey Schulman

7 Young Lorenzo de’ Medici and Augustus’ Rhetoric of Moral Renewal

Louis Verreth

8 The Return of the Virgin: Virgil, the Pope and the Golden Age in De Partu Virginis

Ruben Poelstra

9 L ’ âge d ’ or ( dure ): Idyll, Satire, and the Golden Age of Obscenity in Early Modern France

Daniel Wendt

10 The Return of the Golden Age: Sycophancy and Subversion

Luke B.T. Houghton

11 O modo fortunati Itali ! The Italian Unification and the Neo-Latin Poetics of the Golden Age

Nicholas De Sutter

12 The Return of the Golden Age in Fascist Italy

Nicolò Bettegazzi

13 Golden Ages in Galaxies Far, Far Away …: Vergilian and Hesiodic Nostalgia in Star Wars

Koen Vacano

14 The Far-Right Martyr and Bodybuilder as the Restorers of the Golden Age

R. Kuijpers

15 Back to the Gaulish Village: Retrotopia and the Return of the Golden Age in Contemporary Classical Reception

Maarten De Pourcq

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789004762848

OCLC:

1596675614

Publisher Number:

10./9789004762848 DOI