A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being valuable, but less so than gold.
Read more about Silver Age: Greek Myth, Other Silver Ages
Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or age:
“For soon amid the silver loneliness
Of night he lifted up his voice and sang,
Secure, with only two moons listening,”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Can a moment of madness make up for
an age of consent?”
—Basil Bunting (1900–1985)