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golden age

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Golden Age, in classical mythology: see mythology mythology [Greek,=the telling of stories], the entire body of myths in a given tradition, and the study of myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in different ways, distinguishing them from various other forms of popular, often orally
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golden age
1. Classical myth the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent
2. the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil
Golden Age
legendary period under the rule of Cronus when life was easy and blissful for all. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 33]
See : Utopia
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[*] This was the true aera of the golden age, and the only golden age which ever had any existence, unless in the warm imaginations of the poets, from the expulsion from Eden down to this day.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright's opinion), it was still the Golden Age.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
 
 
 
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