The second generation of people and the second century were no longer as well-off as the first.
It was the Silver Age. People of that time gave way to the people of the Golden Age both in strength and in reason. For a full hundred years they grew up, still unthinking, under their mother’s care, and only after coming of age did they leave the home they were born into.
Their maturity did not last long. Because of their lack of wisdom, they often encountered troubles and suffering. The people of the Silver Age were willful: they did not obey the immortal gods and refused to bring sacrifices to them on the altars.
Then the great son of Kronos, Zeus, was angered by their disobedience to the gods of the bright Olympus and wiped out this race from the earth. He sent them to the gloomy underworld, where they remain—knowing neither joy nor sorrow; and yet people still pay them honor.