quote of the week

“If you like, I will summarize another tale for you, well and skillfully – mind you take it in – telling how gods and mortal men have come from the same starting-point. The race of men that the immortals who dwell on Olympus made first of all was of gold. They were in the time of Kronos, when he was king in heaven; and they lived like gods, with carefree heart, remote from toil and misery. Wretched old age did not affect them either, but with hands and feet ever unchanged they enjoyed themselves in feasting, beyond all ills, and they died as if overcome by sleep.”
(Hesiod, Works and Days (around 700 BC))