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

Word History and Origins

Origin of heroic age¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

"His final voyage kind of ended that Heroic Age of Exploration, of polar exploration, certainly in the south," said renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns, who directed the successful search operation.

From BBC

The Quest was the last missing artifact from the “heroic age of Arctic exploration,” said Martin Brooks, a Shackleton expert and the chief executive of Shackleton, an outdoor apparel company that offers trips that follow the explorer’s journeys.

From New York Times

Is the heroic age of the photojournalist, though, coming to an end?

From BBC

He entrusted his last letter to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who was traveling to Boston and would make a stop in Quincy: “Like other young people, he wishes to be able, in the winter nights of old age, to recount to those around him what he has learnt of the Heroic age preceding his birth, and which of the Argonauts particularly he was in time to have seen.”

From Literature

In the century since the “Heroic Age of Polar Exploration,” Earth’s operating system has changed in myriad and troubling ways, as a direct result of the imperialist logic that drove those men poleward in search of fame and fortune.

From Scientific American