Effects of Industrialization on Hellenic Society

Hesiod divided history into 5 ages:

The Golden Age - An age when men lived among the gods, and freely mingled with them. Peace and harmony prevailed during this age. Humans did not have to work to feed themselves, for the earth provided food in abundance. They lived to a very old age but with a youthful appearance and eventually died peacefully. Their spirits live on as "guardians". Plato in Cratylus (397 e) recounts the golden race of men who came first. He clarifies that Hesiod did not mean men literally made of gold, but good and noble. He describes these men as daemons upon the earth. Since δαίμονες (daimones) is derived from δαήμονες (daēmones) (=knowing or wise), they are beneficent, preventing ills, and guardians of mortal men

The Silver Age and every age that follows fall within the rule of Cronus' successor and son, Zeus. Humans in the Silver age lived for one hundred years as infants. They lived only a short time as grown adults, and spent that time in strife with one another. During this Age humans refused to worship the gods; Zeus destroyed this race for its impiety. After death, humans of this age became "blessed spirits" of the underworld.


Men of the Bronze Age were hard. War was their purpose and passion. Not only arms and tools, but their very homes were forged of bronze. The men of this age were undone by their own violent ways and left no named spirits but dwell in the "dank house of Hades".


The Heroic Age is the one age that does not correspond with any metal. It is also the only age that improves upon the age it follows. In this period lived noble demigods and heroes. It was the heroes of this Age who fought at Thebes and Troy. This race of humans died and went to Elysium.
Hesiod finds himself in the Iron Age. During this age humans live an existence of toil and misery. Children dishonor their parents, brother fights with brother and the social contract between guest and host (xenia) is forgotten. During this age might makes right, and bad men use lies to be thought good. At the height of this age, humans no longer feel shame or indignation at wrongdoing; babies will be born with gray hair and the gods will have completely foresaken humanity: "there will be no help against evil."



If Hellenic Civilization had survived into an Industrial Revolution, what would the various reaction to it be?

There would possibly be a Promethean Faction, that would see the new wave of technology as the next gift of Prometheus. There would also be those who saw this new technology as blasphemous, and would reject it in favor of a return to nature. The vast majority of people would be somwhere in the middle/ That's my guess. How 'bout yours?
 

Kosovic

Banned
Thats mythology, it cosmogony, similar to jewish mythology called christianity. It doesnt have much to do with realistic historical events.
 
But it would have a big effect on what happens in history. Hellenic Civilization would like look upon the new changes as the next 'age', and my question is, how would they view this age.
 
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