heroic age

noun

one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
any period in the history of a nation, especially in ancient Greece and Rome, when great heroes of legend lived:
Achilles, Agamemnon, and others of Greece's heroic age.

heroic age

noun

the period in an ancient culture, when legendary heroes are said to have lived

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Word History and Origins

Origin of heroic age¹

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

“Mercury, Gemini, Apollo—that was the heroic age,” said Roger Launius, a space historian and the former senior curator of space history at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

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It is as much a symbol of the art of a machine age as the man Ulysses is a symbol of the art of an heroic age.

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Is he, for ethical and intellectual purposes, the child of that heroic age which he describes?

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Homer was fully within the sphere and spirit of the heroic age; Hesiod was as plainly outside it.

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For this reason the 'age of heroes and gods' might also, and more briefly, be called the heroic age.

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Of the various weapons found at the zenith of the heroic age, therefore, the sword is the most characteristic.

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