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Yes, but the Romans also had a guy talking about 'a new order of the ages,' bringing back the Golden Age. Christianity had the idea of Christ returning once the Gospel had reached everywhere. Both Descartes and Bacon made sweeping claims about the benefits of secular investigation.
Bringing back the Golden Age, assumes that you could just go back. That's very different from the modern notion of history as something that progresses.