heroic age

American  

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.

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heroic age British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of heroic age

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

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heroic age

Even a century after the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, scientists are still plumbing the continent’s mysteries.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 21, 2022

It’s a relic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, when adventurers undertook elaborate, risky and wildly popular expeditions to the continent and the pole.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

But it’s also a throwback to an earlier heroic age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019

For years afterwards, throughout the heroic age of polar exploration headed by Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, nothing much fancier than wooden huts went up on the white continent.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2017

But if this was a story in the heroic age, they would give my great-grandfather a name, Jamshid, and a personality—ever-laughing Jamshid with a limp in the foot his father crushed with a plow.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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