Heroic Age (disambiguation)
- Heroic Age (disambiguation)
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 (literary theory) postulated by some scholars of oral and traditional literature.
*"Heroic Age" (anime) 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.
*The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, from 1895–1917.
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