Contents Foreword Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Susanna de Beer 2 Time, King, and Empire: the Golden Age in Seleucid Imperial Ideology Wouter Maassen 3 The Golden Age Deferred? The Return of a Vergilian Golden Age in Calpurnius Siculus Matthew Payne 4 Saturnia arua : the Republic as a Pseudo-Golden Age in Silius Italicus' Punica Pieter van den Broek 5 A Kingdom of Gold: Cassius Dio and the Age of the Antonines Reinier Langerak 6 How Vergil Became Christian: the Fourth Eclogue and the Imperial Court Jeffrey Schulman 7 Young Lorenzo de' Medici and Augustus' Rhetoric of Moral Renewal Louis Verreth 8 The Return of the Virgin: Virgil, the Pope and the Golden Age in De Partu Virginis Ruben Poelstra 9 L ' 'ge d ' or ( dure ): Idyll, Satire, and the Golden Age of Obscenity in Early Modern France Daniel Wendt 10 The Return of the Golden Age: Sycophancy and Subversion Luke B.T. Houghton 11 O modo fortunati Itali ! The Italian Unification and the Neo-Latin Poetics of the Golden Age Nicholas De Sutter 12 The Return of the Golden Age in Fascist Italy Nicolò Bettegazzi 13 Golden Ages in Galaxies Far, Far Away .: Vergilian and Hesiodic Nostalgia in Star Wars Koen Vacano 14 The Far-Right Martyr and Bodybuilder as the Restorers of the Golden Age R. Kuijpers 15 Back to the Gaulish Village: Retrotopia and the Return of the Golden Age in Contemporary Classical Reception Maarten De Pourcq Index.