The name of Revolutions is a true technical term of astronomic knowledge and myth: that which ever returns to the same point. It became insistently identified with the idea of the Great Change. As soon as men began to misunderstand it, it History set on the march with irreversible changes. But in the Middle Ages it still promised a return to the undefined Origins, to the Golden Age, when Adam delved and Eve span, or, more Christianly, to when the Lord still walked on earth. Joachim of Flora (c. I 200) was still the prophet of the Great Change that was to be a true accomplishment of ancient prophecies. After the ages of the Father and the Son men expected the Age of the Holy Ghost to follow immediately, when all men would be brothers - a great revolutionary moment sparked by the order of St. Francis. It lived on in the shrunken horizon of Enlightenment, which set the span back to the Greeks and Romans as semi-gods.

Diese Erwartung lebte in dem geschrumpften Gesichtskreis der Aufklaerung fort, die den Bogen zurueck zu den Griechen und Roemern als Halbgoetter schlug.

не обратило время, а обратилось к античности (древним грекам и римлянам, видя в них полубогов)

можете постить на немецком форуме параллельно английскому, с немецким переводом.

почти уверена, там Вам не напишут, что это бред, – только потому, что сами не понимают :)