The Ages of Man according to Hesiod and Ovid

Hesiod includes this age to be a part but separate from the Bronze Age.

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This age is characterized by humans having 100-year childhoods, followed by short adulthoods due to their "senselessness."

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This age is characterized by carefree living, life without "toil or trouble."

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The dead become "holy spirits" after their deaths and protect the living.

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This race of humans is warlike and pursued "the painful and violent deeds of Ares."

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This is the age of the Trojan War.

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The virtuous figures from this age live in the Isles of the Blessed upon their noble deaths.

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This race destroyed themselves and went to the Underworld (Hades) for the first time.

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This race existed when Cronus was still king in heaven.

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This age, the first associated with Zeus, was "covered over" because they did not "give the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus their due."

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