Proper noun
the Heroic Age
(mythology) One of the five ages of man, the period at which semidivine and human heroes are purported to have lived, between the arrival of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. Lascelles Abercrombie
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. Lascelles Abercrombie
We shall have to bear in mind that the gulf separating classical Israel (of the great Prophets) from classical Greece (of the scientists and philosophers) must not be read back into the heroic age when both peoples formed part of the same international complex. Cyrus H. Gordon
"The Rudiments of Wisdom Part Six: Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow" Wisdom 6 (July 2007) Heroic Age In the Shadowland storyline, Shang-Chi is one of the heroes fighting The Hand ninjas. Source: Internet
Whatever the historical realities reflected in these stories, the Atreids are firmly set in the epoch near the end of the Heroic Age, leading up to the arrival of the Dorians. Source: Internet
The 1950s began at the end of what I think of as the first heroic age, and saw the brilliant and beautiful EC Comics bloom and get cut down, leading (after a few years wandering in the desert) to the second heroic age (as chronicled by Wells). Source: Internet