单词 | heroic times |
释义 | > as lemmasheroic times b. spec. Chiefly in heroic age, heroic times. Designating the period of Greek history and legend preceding the Trojan War and its aftermath, in which the myths of the Greek heroes are set. Also in extended use: designating a period in the history of any nation or region in which legends of heroes are set. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > of Greek antiquity or mythology antiquityc1375 golden age?a1439 silver age1565 heroic age1654 heroic times1654 brazen age1841 mundane era1892 1654 P. English Surv. Policy ii. 137 In the heroick age men did much dote upon Kingly Government. Then men were extream haughty and arrogant, and could not be governed by equals. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. ii. 27 The ancient Mythologie, conteining fabulous narrations of the ancient Heroic times. 1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients III. ii. xi. 528 Here begin the Fables of the Poets, for the Events of those Heroic Times are always wrapped up in Fictions. 1776 J. Beattie Ess. 68 Those philosophers who recommend the manners of the heroic period, or even the savage state, as better..than those of our own time. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. v. 123 The period included between the first appearance of the Hellenes in Thessaly, and the return of the Greeks from Troy, is commonly known by the name of the heroic age, or ages. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 124 The simple hereditary monarchy of the heroic times. 1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance i. 7 What the ‘heroic age’ of the modern nations really was, may be learned from what is left of their heroic literature, especially from three groups or classes,—the old Teutonic alliterative poems on native subjects; the French Chansons de Geste; and the Icelandic Sagas. 1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse p. xxix The Germanic heroic age of the fourth to seventh centuries. 1965 K. Sisam Struct. Beowulf 7 The doors of Heorot opened into the Heroic Age. 1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) i. 13 Homer's account of the Heroic Age of the Trojan War had been dramatically confirmed. < as lemmas |
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