Aeneas sprang from his chariot armed with shield and spear, fearing lest the Achaeans should carry off the body. He bestrode it as a lion in the pride of strength, with shield and spear before him and a cry of battle on his lips resolute to kill the first that should dare face him. But the son of Tydeus caught up a mighty stone, so huge and great that as men now are it would take two to lift it; nevertheless he bore it aloft with ease unaided…
—The Iliad, Chapter 5, lines 297-304
Among the things we learn from the ancients is that there is nothing new under the sun: casting shade on the perceived weakness of younger generations has been going on since before the Iliad, which itself is nearly 3000 years old.
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