Iron Age, Greek Mythology Link. All evil burst forth into this baser age, which is our own.
Men never rest from labor and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night.
Modesty and truth and faith leave the earth, and in their place come tricks, plots and traps, violence and the love of profit. The ground, which had been common possession, was now marked with boundary-lines. Men not only demand of the fields the sustenance they owe, but they delve as well in the bowels of the earth bringing to light the wealth which the creator has buried and hidden away. Hard iron came in this age, and also gold, which is even worse than iron. And with them war came, and so men found it natural to live on plunder.