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This book represents the first reception history of the classical myth of the “Golden Age” from Antiquity up until the present. The introduction proposes “Golden Age thinking” as a set of connected ideas about the flexible organization of time, morality and divine interventions. The case-studies reveal the different ways this has been and still is being used to promote a particular vision of the future by connecting it to an idealized vision of a lost past. Together they offer a toolkit for understanding this motif’s enduring power, and reconstruct the trajectory during which Greco-Roman antiquity, from being the origin of the Golden Age myth, was transformed into a kind of Golden Age itself.
Price: $140.00
Pages: 376
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation
Publication Date:
23 July 2026
ISBN: 9789004762831
Format: Hardcover
Susanna de Beer is Endowed Professor of Classical Receptions at Groningen University, and Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature at Leiden University. Her latest publications include The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry (Oxford, 2024).
Ruben Poelstra is a teacher of Classics at the Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasium and a PhD candidate at Leiden University. His research examines classical reception in Neo-Latin Christian epic in the Renaissance – the work of Sannazaro in particular.
Louis Verreth is a PhD candidate in Latin literature at Leiden University. His doctoral research focuses on the Latin poets of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Florence. His publications include the critical edition of Francesco Filelfo’s Latin translation of pseudo-Aristotle’s Rhetorica ad Alexandrum (Alessandria, 2022).
Contributors are: Wouter Maassen, Matthew F. Payne, Pieter van den Broek, Reinier Langerak, Jeffrey E. Schulman, Daniel Wendt, Luke B.T. Houghton, Nicholas De Sutter, Nicolò Bettegazzi, Koen Vacano, Roelie Kuijpers, and Maarten De Pourcq.
Ruben Poelstra is a teacher of Classics at the Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasium and a PhD candidate at Leiden University. His research examines classical reception in Neo-Latin Christian epic in the Renaissance – the work of Sannazaro in particular.
Louis Verreth is a PhD candidate in Latin literature at Leiden University. His doctoral research focuses on the Latin poets of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Florence. His publications include the critical edition of Francesco Filelfo’s Latin translation of pseudo-Aristotle’s Rhetorica ad Alexandrum (Alessandria, 2022).
Contributors are: Wouter Maassen, Matthew F. Payne, Pieter van den Broek, Reinier Langerak, Jeffrey E. Schulman, Daniel Wendt, Luke B.T. Houghton, Nicholas De Sutter, Nicolò Bettegazzi, Koen Vacano, Roelie Kuijpers, and Maarten De Pourcq.