http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_race
Published on Oct 24, 2012
Hesiod was a Boeotian farmer until the day he met the muses while he was tending sheep. The muses were the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne [Memory] who inspired poets, speakers, and artists. By convention, they were invoked at the beginning of an epic poem. The muses inspired Hesiod to write the 800-line epic poem called Works and Days. In it, Hesiod tells a Greek creation story that traces the lineage of mankind through 5 successive "ages" or "races" from the "Golden Age" to the present "Iron Age."
