Ages of Man
Stages of human existence according to Greco-Roman mythology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about mythological ages. For the "Seven Ages of Man" speech from Shakespeare's "As You Like It", see All the world's a stage. For the one-man show, see The Ages of Man (play).
"Silver age" redirects here. For other uses, see Silver age (disambiguation).
The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.
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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 which humans are beset by innumerable pains and evils. In the two accounts that survive from Ancient Greece and Rome, this degradation of the human condition over time is indicated symbolically with metals of successively decreasing value (but increasing hardness).