HEROIC AGE, is that age or period of the world wherein the heroes, or those called by the poets the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.—The heroic age coincides with the fabulous age.
HEROIC POEM is that which undertakes to describe some extraordinary action, or enterprise. Homer, Virgil, Statius, Lucan, Tasso, Camoens, Milton, and Voltaire, have composed heroic poems. In this sense, heroic poem coincides with epic poem.