ing. Virgil takes us back to the site of Rome hundreds of years before Romulus,
and it is already littered with ruins. Evander, almost within reach of Saturn, is the
immediately postlapsarian man; Virgil’s audience, living in their own supposed
Golden Age, are thereby brought to imagine the time when it too will leave its own
traces and ruins. As indeed it did; as indeed it has.
- Years, Months, Days I: Eras and Anniversaries