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:
“And now the chapel’s silver bell you hear,
That summons you to all the pride of pray’r:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“One age is like another for the soul.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)