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"Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path." These opening lines from The Inferno were written by Dante at the age of 42, from which we may infer that being middle-aged in the Middle Ages was hell.
Dante was hardly the first author to tackle the midlife crisis. The theme stretches all the way back to the epic of Gilgamesh, circa 2600 B.C.E. When his best buddy is struck down in his prime, Gilgamesh, the great and powerful builder of Uruk, launches...
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