Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
A family disputes a measure of grain while an old singer tells of worlds made from gold, silver, bronze, heroic courage, and iron. Can a story of decline expose injustice without becoming an excuse for it?The Ages of Humanity retells Hesiod’s five generations through original English literary prose and a contemporary-to-the-myth household frame. Golden ease, silver dependence, bronze violence, the heroic interruption, and the mixed conditions of iron become stories tested against debt, testimony, hospitality, memory, and partial justice. The book preserves the crucial fact that the heroes are not a fourth metal and are described as better than the bronze generation.Interpretive essays clarify that race here means mythic kind or generation, not modern biological race; distinguish poetic sequence from archaeological chronology; and compare Plato’s different cosmic cycle in the Statesman without blending the sources. All frame characters and detailed scenes are identified as inventions. Written for reading and listening; contains war, death, deprivation, family conflict, and injustice. Intended for adult and mature teen readers.Volume 6 of The Living Greek Myths. By Deivede Eder Ferreira. Published by ABRAFP International Press.
