Motif
Golden age of ease and abundance
golden_age_of_ease_and_abundance
A motif of the World Ages and Cosmic Decline family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 1623-1702 confidence: high
The Olympian gods make the golden race during Cronos's reign; they live like gods without sorrow, toil, or grief, die like sleep, and receive abundant fruit from earth.
The golden race lives without sorrow, toil, grief, or painful old age; earth bears fruit abundantly and without compulsion.
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