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Historic period

noun

An era of history having some distinctive feature. Synonym: age.

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... Greek historic period are "unknown to Homer," Mr. Leaf says, "with a very few curious exceptions," [Footnote: Iliad, vol. i. p. 575.] detected by Reichel in Book X. 15 [Footnote: Ibid, vol. i. p. 569, fig. 2.], where Diomede's men sleep with their heads resting on their shields, whereas a big- bellied ...

— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

... the Heroic Age the preferred form of government was a patriarchal monarchy. The Iliad says, "The rule of many is not a good thing: let us have one ruler only,—one king,—him to whom Zeus has given the sceptre." But by the dawn of the historic period, the patriarchal monarchies of the Achaean age had given place, in almost all the Grecian ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... and deposited in a pit dug for the purpose, while the great number of broken bones of various animals indicates that at such times feasts were held. A custom like this, which is quite consistent with the Indian character as manifested within the historic period, would account for the character of the contents of the pits, while their great number would indicate a ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

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