What Makes a Homeric Hero? Greek Myth Comix explaining the Greek Myths
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Greek Mythology:The 5 Ages of Man
The Greek Heroic Age, in mythology, is the period between the coming of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy. It was demarcated as one of the five Ages of Man by Hesiod. The period spans roughly six generations; the heroes denoted by the term are superhuman, though not divine, and are celebrated in the literature of Homer.