the period in an ancient culture, when legendary heroes are said to have lived
heroic age in American English
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, esp. in ancient Greece and Rome, when great heroes of legend lived
Achilles, Agamemnon, and others of Greece's heroic age
Word origin
[1825–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: breakdown, cliché, cross section, individualism, structural
Examples of 'heroic age' in a sentence
heroic age
Being out there gave me even more respect for those adventurers in the heroic age of polar exploration.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But the heroic age provided examples to live up to, not a lost world to hanker after.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
The heroic age of antibiotic discovery, when a new one was found every year, is long over.