Golden Age
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
golden age · that age · the Golden Age · the fortunate age · the reign of Saturn
in the texts
Ancient Law
The poetic notion of an original, ideal age invoked by ancient writers.
yet the jurisconsults do not speak clearly or confidently of the existence of such a state, which indeed is little noticed by the ancients except where it finds a poetical expression in the fancy of a golden age.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The mythic primeval era portrayed by poets as a time of universal common possession.
In the primitive law of nations, which is sometimes called Natural Law, and which the poets sometimes portray as having existed in a Golden Age, and sometimes in the reign of Saturn or of Justice, there was no particular right.
Letters to Lucilius
The idealized primeval era of natural simplicity, common possession, and rule by the wise, before avarice and luxury corrupted humanity.
among men of one accord it was divided.
Why should I not call that the richest race of mortals, in which you could find no poor man?
In that age, then, which they call golden, Posidonius judges that the kingship was in the hands of the wise.