While we often look to the past for an example of a better world, our counterparts living in the ancient world did the same, viewing even their time as a fallen one, ruled by greed. Greek and Roman authors such as Hesiod and Ovid detailed the decay of the world from original perfection in the myth of the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages, and the philosophy of Plato, in his Statesman dialogue, leans upon the myth of the ages in its metaphysics. If we seek to understand the myth of the ages through mythology and philosophy, we find practical advice for hopeful living in our own lives, even in a world that feels fallen and broken.

Mythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.”

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00:00 Introduction

00:12 Roman Mosaic Depicting Anaximander with Sundial

00:20 Hesiod’s Works and Days from Biblioteca Marciana

00:55 The Creation by James Tissot

01:16 The First Transformation

01:32 Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the European Library of Information and Culture

02:00 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I

03:13 Booroobin Sunshine Coast Australia by Jordan Condon, licensed under Creative Commons

03:31 Star Map by Elizabeth Shurtleff

03:40 The Golden Age

04:01 The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder

04:15 The Golden Age by Frans Francken the Younger et. al.

04:26 Spring by Jean-Jacques Le Veau after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

04:50 Funerary Stele of Demokleides, photographed by Furius, licensed under Creative Commons

04:54 Hesiod, Works and Days

05:11 Nothing Gold Can Stay

05:15 Titan Struck by Lightning by François Dumont

05:36 Winter by Jean-Jacques Le Veau after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

05:50 Agricultural Calendar by Master of the Geneva Boccaccio

08:58 Title Page to 1539 Edition of Hesiod’s Works and Days

06:20 The Souls of Acheron by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

06:34 Achilles’ Sacrifice of Trojan Prisoners from the François Tomb

07:09 The Iron Age by Jan Collaert II et. al.

07:22 The Iron Age by Jean-Jacques Le Veau after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

07:32 The Age of Iron by Paolo Fiammingo

07:40 Illustration from Griffith’s Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain

07:59 The Close of the Silver Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder

08:19 Justice by Raphael

08:26 Truth at the Bottom of a Well by Jean-Léon Gérome

09:06 The Changing Ages

09:16 Two Young Men Hunting a Deer by the Dokimasia Painter

09:26 Artemis Kaurotrophos from Archaeological Museum of Brauron

09:40 Page of the Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39, Dialogue Politikos

10:16 Saturnus by Jan Van Vianen

10:28 Jupiter on his Eagle Enthroned in the Clouds by Stradanus

10:55 The Age of Bronze by Paolo Fiammingo

11:42 The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole

12:18 The Golden Age by Hendrick van der Borcht the Elder

12:36 The Stars Above

12:58 The Golden Age by Abraham Bloemaert

13:22 The Age of Gold by Jacopo Zucchi

13:38 Booroobin Sunshine Coast Australia photographed by Jordan Condon, licensed under Creative Commons

13:55 Astronomy Amateur by Halfblue, licensed under Creative Commons

14:29 The Age of Gold by José Manuel Félix Magdalena, licensed under Creative Commons

All works of art are in the public domain unless otherwise noted.

Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.