Hesiod in "Works and Days", says that in principle, at the time ruled Cronus, the god of the Latin Saturn, there was a race gold. The men still lived like gods, free from worries, free from toil and misery, did not know the old and young and remained intent on banquets and parties. Now is the time to die, slowly fell asleep. They did not have work and assets belong to all equally. They lived the abundant harvest from the land and offered peace. The age of 'gold was the kingdom of justice and good faith and remained to indicate the beginnings of humanity' in which the gods lived next to death. The doors had not yet been invented, since 'the theft did not exist and men had nothing to hide, in fact, Juvenal says that once "no more feared thieves" and people lived "without closing the orchard." We ate only vegetables and fruits, since 'no one thought to kill. Rome was identified with Cronus and Saturn put the eta 'gold at the time that this God who reigned over Italy was still called Ausonia. Zeus began with the reign of the 'age' of iron and gold race disappeared. Since then, the earth and the men were the prey of every wickedness: - Victa iacet pietas, et Virgo CAED madentes last caelestum, terras Astraea reliquit ( Won lies the pity, and the virgin Astraea's left - the last of - the ground drenched with blood) - as we read in Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, vv. 149-150. The crimes of humanity ', the goddess Iustitia routed and forced to leave the ground, where he lived with family' together with the mortals fled 'in the sky where it became the constellation Virgo . Astrea is, in fact, the name of the constellation Virgo at the time the kingdom on earth. In the fourth eclogue Eclogues of Virgil, speaking of Astrea, announces the coming of a child who will rebuild the world (v. 5.7): - (born again the largest order ever. Already back to the Virgin, comes the reign of Saturn, and already the new progeny descends from heaven).
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