Silver Age - Other Silver Ages

Other Silver Ages

The term has been applied to a number of other periods following a "Golden Age", including:

  • The Silver Age of Latin literature
  • The Silver Age of Comic Books, the 2000 DC Comics series Silver Age was named after the period
  • The Silver Age of Russian Poetry
  • The Silver Age of Alpinism
  • The Treta Yuga of vedic philosophy of the ages.

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Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or ages:

    “I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
    But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)

    “The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone. There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)