Western Antiquity

Caesar, Christ, and the Restoration of the Golden Age

Volume 1 | June 6, 2022

Theme: Religion & Politics

Discipline: Western Antiquity

The idea that we are a shadow of what we once were, that humanity has in some way deteriorated from an earlier superior state, is at least as old as European literature itself. In the Iliad, Homer observes several times that two modern men could not even lift the stones that his ancient heroes tossed…