Golden Age in Society
A society's Golden Age marks that period in its history having a heightened output of art, science, literature, and philosophy.
- Athenian Golden Age presided by Pericles
- Golden age of Latin literature, the period in Latin literature between Cicero and Ovid.
- Golden age of India, the period between the 3rd century to the 6th century CE under the leadership of the Gupta Empire, during which Indians made great achievements in mathematics, science, culture, religion, philosophy and astronomy.
- Islamic Golden Age, from the beginning of Islam (622) until the sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Golden Age of Bulgaria, the reign of Emperor Simeon I the Great, late 9th - early 10th centuries.
- The Golden Age of Kiev
- China has had multiple golden ages, with the Han, Tang, Song, and Ming all considered golden ages in Chinese history. The Chinese Golden Age is used to refer to the period of the Tang and Song Dynasties from 618 to 1279, which saw an economic revolution.
- Golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula, period between 900 and 1100
- Georgian Golden Age, the period of prosperity and cultural flourishing in Georgia in the 12th and early 13th centuries.
- Second Golden Age of Bulgaria - prosperity of Bulgarian culture, literature and arts during Emperor Ivan Alexander (1331–1371).
- Golden age of Valencian literature, 15th Century
- Siglo de oro:
- the powerful Spanish Empire between 16th and 17th centuries
- the later Spanish Golden Age of the arts in the 17th century.
- Golden Age of England presided by Elizabeth I of England.
- Golden Age of Britain under Queen Victoria.
- Dutch Golden Age, 17th century
- Polish Golden Age, 16th century, early 17th century
- Golden age of Belarusian history, 1500s–1570s, esp. 1550s–1570s
- Grand Siècle, the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
- The Golden Age of Piracy, 1650-1730.
- Early Christian Ireland, when Ireland was united under one High King and was significant in European art
- The Genroku era (1688–1704) in Japan is widely considered a "golden age" for literature, drama, and the arts
- Golden Age of Capitalism, a period of rapid growth in the western economies from 1945 to 1970. Also used for the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
- The Golden Twenties, the 1920s
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Famous quotes containing the words golden age, golden, age and/or society:
“The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“She came out on the stage in yards of pearls, emerging like
a favorite scenic view, flashed her golden smile and sang.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“In a period of a people’s life that bears the designation “transitional,” the task of a thinking individual, of a sincere citizen of his country, is to go forward, despite the dirt and difficulty of the path, to go forward without losing from view even for a moment those fundamental ideals on which the entire existence of the society to which he belongs is built.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)