Motif
Golden Age or primitive age contrast
golden_age_or_primitive_age_contrast
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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Fasti MAIUS. LIB. V. / JUNIUS. LIB. VI. / P. OVIDII NASONIS FASTORUM / LIBER I.; lines 2170-2310 confidence: medium
The notes identify falcifer as Saturn, discuss the Janiculum, Tiber, Seven Hills, and a contrast between former and present Rome, and cite Golden Age parallels including Ovid and Hesiod.
The notes explicitly refer to the Golden Age and to Augustan poetic contrasts between the former and present state of the Seven Hills.
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