- Heroic Age
The Heroic Age was the period of Greek mythological history that lay between the purely divine events of the
Theogony andTitanomachy and the advent of historical time after theTrojan War . It was demarcated as one of the fiveAges of Man byHesiod . The Greek heroes can be grouped into an approximate chronology, based on the great meet-up events of the Argonautic expedition and the Trojan War. While the inherently contradictory nature of mythical evidence makes precision impossible, the following represents a reasonably accurate timeline of the Greek Heroic Age.Before the Argonauts
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Aeacus
*Agenor and Phoenix
*Cadmus
*Europa
*Cilix
*Labdacus
*Tantalus
*Oenomaeus The generation of the
Argonauts "(about three generations before Troy)"
The Argonauts:
*Atalanta
*Autolycus
*Calais ,
*"Castor and Polydeuces "'
*Echion
*Euphemus
*Euryalus
*Heracles
*Hylas
*Idas
*Idmon
*Jason
*Laertes
*Lynceus
*Meleager
*Nestor
*Oileus
*Orpheus
*Peleus
*Poeas
*Polyphemus
*Poriclymenus
*Telamon
*Theseus
*Tiphys
*Zetes
*Medea Others:
*Pelops
*Perseus
*Hippodamia
*Laius
*Minos
*Rhadymanthus
*Sarpedon
*Myrtilus The Generation of Oedipus
"(about two generation before Troy)"
*
Pittheus
*Plisthenes
*Atreus
*Thyestes
*Chrysippus
*Copreus
*Oedipus
*Creon
*Laodamia The Generation of the
Seven Against Thebes "(about a generation before Troy)"
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Adrastus
*Amphiaraus
*Capaneus
*Hippomedon
*Parthenopeus
*Polynices
*Tydeus
*Adrastus
*Creon
*Megareus
*Poriclymenus
*Melanippus
*Polyphontes
*Hyperbius
*Actor
*Lasthenes
*Antigone
*Ismene The Generation of the Trojan War
See
Trojan War andEpigoni The Generation after the Trojan War
*
Orestes
*Electra
*Telemachus
*Neoptolemus
*Aeneas External links
*http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/heroic.html
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