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Referenced when discussing Spain's golden age and cultural peaks, noting that Cervantes' work involves a character who 'mistakes windmills for giants' and is 'on the cusp' looking back to an age of chivalry.

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Referenced when discussing the golden age of the Antonines, with a quote from Gibbon about the period from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus being when 'the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.'

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Referenced as 'his book, his history' when discussing Pericles' funeral speech and how Thucydides' work describes how over-optimism based on a sense of living through a golden age dragged Athens into decades of war.

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Referenced when discussing Augustus and prophecies of a golden age, describing Virgil's famous description of 'a new cycle' and 'the golden age returns' with the birth of a child.

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Referenced when discussing American nostalgia and the sense that America's best days may be in the past, noting that 'in John Updike's rabbit books, they talk about the great American ride is ending.'

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Referenced multiple times as children's educational history books, including mention that 'my Lady Bird books when I was a child talked about the golden age of Elizabethan England' and later regarding impressions of Rome as a golden age.