The Roman emperor Augustus was very nostalgic, and enforced so number of laws based on traditional morality including the prohibition of adultery. I think more generally every culture has had some kind of nostalgia and romantic view of an earlier period, whether it was to a period of particular affluence, the reign of a legendary ruler or a great military success

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