Heroic Age

:This article treats the Heroic Age of the Greeks. For the so-called Heroic Age when the Germanic tribes are concerned, see Germanic Iron Age.

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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.

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Theogony: Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins of the gods of Greek mythology....

Titanomachy: In Greek mythology, Titanomachy or the War of the Titans was the series of battles before the existence of mankind that lasted for ten years and was fought between the two races of Gods: Titans (fighting from Mt. Othrys) (the second generation of Gods) and esentially their own children -- or at leas...

Trojan War: The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which onl...

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