What was the age of heroes during the time of Ancient Greece?

Answer 1

The Greek Heroic Age followed the Trojan war and lasted about six generations. This age is described by Hesiod in his 'Age of Man.' The heroes are often shown as having supernatural strength from the gods, nobility and divine favor.

Answer 2

There were several ages in Ancient Greece. Most of them are not very talked about but here are all of the popular ages.

• Dark Ages
• Archaic Period
• Classical Period
• Hellenistic Period
• Roman Period

Answer 3

It is supposed to be the period around the Trojan War - the 12th Century BCE, covering the early Achaean Greek civilisation. We have no real historical record of this period, just the archeological evidence and the traditional (not historical) stories concocted by the bards who made a living providing the entertainment of the epic poems.

However Homer's poetic stories - Iliad and Odyssey - cover a preiod well beyond that - with elements fron the 14th to the 8th Century BCE mixed up in the core stories..

The 12th Century covers the end of the Mycenaean civilisation - thereafter the Sea People and the Dorian Greeks moved into Greece, and the growing surplus populations in Greece (Ionians and Dorians) began to spread east and colonise the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor - a process which lasted for half a millennium and extended west to the Western Mediterranean (Sicily, Italy, North Africa etc).

Answer 4

800 bce - 480 bce