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

Example Sentences

And even in bitterly cold East Antarctica, there are occasional warming events that likely would shock the explorers of the heroic age.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2019

Mr. Lubovitch, 75, was lucky to discover dance when he did, in the early 1960s — the tail end of the heroic age of American modern dance.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2018

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