Ovid Hesiod Ages Of Man

Answer. In his legendary work of Metamorphoses, the renowned Roman poet Ovid shared his views over the gradually evolving stages of the human growth model, generally termed as Ages of Man. As per Ovid, these stages represent the various evolutionary ages of mankind, as a myth.
• Golden Age: Marked by excessive peace and judiciously poised era, this age is termed Golden as man was not aware of navigation techniques and only dedicated his efforts towards setting up pre-agriculture. The era was marked by absence of any other art but pre-agriculturist skills.
• Silver Age: This era was marked by Jupiter blessing the humans with knowledge about seasons and agriculture practices. Thus the focus of man was shifted to architecture of lodging and
Further, exploitation of natural resources like minerals through mining activities resulted in making humans more greedy and impious. This age is assumed to continue till date.
In comparison with Greek poet Hesiod’s description of stages of humanity, the following differences are observed in Ovid’s outlook towards ages of mankind.
• The Hesiod’s description of ages involves the basic four ages of Golden, Silver, Bronze and Iron Age, as described by Ovid. However, prior to Iron Age, the Hesiod’s work elicits an age referred as Heroic Age. This age is assumed to comprise of heroes and demigods like Achilles, who fought epic battles like Trojan war.
• The Golden age in Hesiod’s work is defined to be the rule of Omnipotent Greek god Cronos and created humans were made by gods. So this era was marked with humans and Gods co-existing in peace.
• The Silver age is described by Hesiod to be an era when Cronos’ son Zeus ruled earth and heavens. Those men who sought shelter in Zeus’s pity survived and those who refused worshipping the gods were punished by Zeus for being
Consequently, Apollo fell into love with Daphne and started pursuing her. However, Daphne, who was also hit by another arrow, avoided Apollo and sought divine radiance to turn herself into a Laurel. Thus the story of Apollo and Daphne ended in a tragic way and testified gullibility of even Gods to human emotions . The relationship between Gods and Humans is exemplified by this story which later paves the way for the consequent existence of many demigods in the Heroic era , who were result of mating between Gods and