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Did ancient and medieval people have the rigid idea about history we have now? Like how we consider everything from Cavemen to the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki to be "the past" in contrast to "the present".
Is it a negative thing to periodize the past as one flowing narrative rather than merely a list of events?
Pic somewhat related, tables like this wouldn't have exist when Jesus was alive
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>>2339575
There are plenty of Golden Age or prehistory myths so people of the past definitely had an idea that something came before them.
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>>2339662
Interesting
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History didn't really exist until people could write.
>oral
>history
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>>2339575
Yeah. The "Dark Ages" meme was coined by a Renaissance art critic (Vasari, I think) so periodization of history definitely has a long precedent
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>>2339662
Those are mostly spiritual. Like edenic age spiritual. Like mankind shined a brilliant light and could create food with their mind spiritual. I guess the Bronze Age is kinda relevant because that's when the Iliad and odyssey took place.
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>>2339575
They mostly thought in Biblical terms and the end was always coming any moment now.
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>>2340898
and this attitude is why a vast majority of human historical context was lost forever. ignored writing down oral histories because of the legends intermixed with them. one of the worst fumblings in the field of history imo.
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