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/sˈɪlvər eɪdʒ/ Listen

Silver age

noun

(classical mythology) the second age of the world, characterized by opulence and irreligion; by extension, a period secondary in achievement to a golden age.

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... translate it as black.[336] The rare and regular appearances of Mercury may have suggested the planet's connection with a recurring Age. Venus as an evening star might be regarded as the herald of the lunar or silver age; she was propitious as a bearded deity and interchanged with ...

— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie

... trees Stand as they were on air graven, Or as the vessels in a haven Await the morning breeze. I fancy even Through your defiles windeth the way to heaven; And yonder still, in spite of history's page, Linger the golden and the silver age; Upon the laboring gale The news of future centuries is brought, And of new dynasties of ...

— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... sense to see that a danseuse at the Gaiete had a certain rank to maintain, he raised the monthly stipend to five hundred francs, for which, although he did not again become an angel, he was, at least, a "friend for life," a second father. This was his silver age. ...

— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Silver age" : classical mythology, period of time, period, time period