Silver Age

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)

    The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)