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heroic age

noun

  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, especially in ancient Greece and Rome, when great heroes of legend lived:

    Achilles, Agamemnon, and others of Greece's heroic age.



heroic age

noun

  1. the period in an ancient culture, when legendary heroes are said to have lived
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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