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:
“Silver bells, silver bells,
It’s Christmas time in the city.”
—Ray Evans (b. 1915)
“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)