heroic age

heroic age
1. one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
2. any period in the history of a nation, esp. in ancient Greece and Rome, when great heroes of legend lived: Achilles, Agamemnon, and others of Greece's heroic age.
[1825-35]

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