Heroic Age
Heroic Age may refer to:
- The Heroic Age in Greek mythology, the period at which semi-divine and human heroes are supposed to have lived.
- The Heroic Age of the Germanic tribes (the Germanic Iron Age).
- The Heroic Age postulated by some scholars of oral and traditional literature.
- Heroic Age is the title of an anime by XEBEC.
The phrase Heroic Age has also been used to refer to pioneering periods in various professions in which "Larger than Life" figures generate inspiring stories for later generations, for example:
- The Heroic Age of Medicine, from roughly 1860 to 1910.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Heroic Age (disambiguation)". Image Credit.
Extended Definition: HEROIC AGE
Heroic Age
The Heroic Age was the period of Greek mythological history that lay between the purely divine events of the Theogony and Titanomachy and the advent of historical time after the Trojan War. It was demarcated as one of the five Ages of Man by Hesiod. The Greek heroes can be grouped into an approximate chronology, based on the great meet-up events of the Argonautic expedition and the Trojan War. While the inherently contradictory nature of mythical evidence makes precision impossible, the following represents a reasonably accurate timeline of the Greek Heroic Age.
Before the Argonauts
- Aeacus
- Agenor and Phoenix
- Cadmus
- Europa
- Cilix
- Labdacus
- Tantalus
- Oenomaeus
Argonauts
(about three generations before Troy)
The Argonauts:
- Atalanta
- Autolycus
- Calais,
- Castor and Polydeuces'
- Echion
- Euphemus
- Euryalus
- Heracles
- Hylas
- Idas
- Idmon
- Jason
- Laertes
- Lynceus
- Meleager
- Nestor
- Oileus
- Orpheus
- Peleus
- Poeas
- Polyphemus
- Poriclymenus
- Telamon
- Theseus
- Tiphys
- Zetes
- Medea
Others:
- Pelops
- Perseus
- Hippodamia
- Laius
- Minos
- Rhadymanthus
- Sarpedon
- Myrtilus
The Generation of Oedipus
(about two generation before Troy)
- Pittheus
- Plisthenes
- Atreus
- Thyestes
- Chrysippus
- Copreus
- Oedipus
- Creon
- Laodamia
Seven Against Thebes
(about a generation before Troy)
- Adrastus
- Amphiaraus
- Capaneus
- Hippomedon
- Parthenopeus
- Polynices
- Tydeus
- Adrastus
- Creon
- Megareus
- Poriclymenus
- Melanippus
- Polyphontes
- Hyperbius
- Actor
- Lasthenes
- Antigone
- Ismene
The Generation of the Trojan War
See Trojan War and Epigoni
The Generation after the Trojan War
- Orestes
- Electra
- Telemachus
- Neoptolemus
- Aeneas
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Heroic Age". Image Credit.
