And most of the great periods are represented, because we will compare Plato and Aristotle from the golden age of Greece ; ;

Mankind, as a result, attains previously undreamed of levels of civilization and culture, a golden age which the Overlords, a very evident symbol of science, have helped produce by introducing reason and the scientific method into human activities.

The 18th and 19th centuries saw an influx of naturalists, writers, and artists, in particular the Romantics, followed by the golden age of alpinism as mountaineers began to ascend the peaks.

In its origins and its first golden age, no art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does.

The young Alcuin came to the cathedral church of York during the golden age of Archbishop Ecgbert and Northumbrian King Eadberht.

The 1950s proved a golden age for Lions rugby, although only in the 1970s did style begin to match the substance of victory in New Zealand and South Africa.

The 18th century was the golden age of Bordeaux.

The Sultanate of Brunei, during its golden age from the 15th century to the 17th century, ruled a large part of northern Borneo.

The 19th century was the golden age of bush ballads.

These results came at the beginning of the golden age of general relativity, which was marked by general relativity and black holes becoming mainstream subjects of research.

The battle was a defining moment for the young Athenian democracy, showing what might be achieved through unity and self-belief ; indeed, the battle effectively marks the start of a " golden age " for Athens.

The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the 9th to the 13th centuries, when Khmer Empire, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia.

The reign of Louis the Great ( 1342 – 1382 ) is considered the golden age of Croatian medieval history.

The final ( and most important ) move to Yin in 1350 BC led to the dynasty's golden age.

It was a golden age of Chinese civilization with significant developments in art, literature, particularly poetry, and technology.

This period is considered the golden age of Chinese philosophy.

This tension is best exhibited in the Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta ( Digha Nikaya 26 of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon ), the story of humanity's decline from a golden age in the past.

Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

It is not entirely cyclical because it claims the golden age has passed and history is gradually descending towards decadence.

Several scholars have explored the so-called " golden age " of the Maritimes in the years just before Confederation.

The era has been called a golden age, but that was a myth created in the 1930s to lure tourists to a romantic era of tall ships and antiques.

Thus the era was indeed a golden age but only for a small but powerful and highly visible elite.

It was still mostly agricultural and sometimes called the “ golden age of the peasantry ”.

Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

According to scholars Carole Kismaric and Marvi Heiferman, " The golden age of detective fiction began with high-class amateur detectives sniffing out murderers lurking in rose gardens, down country lanes, and in picturesque villages.

( Chapter 24. 33 ) The institution of the Magna Carta which happens outside the timeframe of the story, is portrayed as a progressive ( incremental ) reform, but also as a step toward recovery of a lost golden age of liberty endemic to England and the English system.

The story commonly involves a relic known as the Triforce, which is a set of three omnipotent golden triangles.

Another story mentioned that he held onto a golden dog forged by Hephaestus and stolen by Tantalus ' friend Pandareus.

According to a number of moralistic stories, there was a golden tripod ( or, in some versions of the story, a bowl or cup ) which was to be given to the wisest.

* Livio, Mario, 2002, The golden ratio: the story of Phi, the extraordinary number of nature, art, and beauty.

Euhemeristic attempts on the part of readers whose own cultural background dismisses the mythic fleece as a fanciful object have interpreted the Golden Fleece " realistically " as reflecting some actual cultural object or alleged historical practice grounded in economics: for example, in the twentieth century it was suggested that the story of the Golden Fleece signified the bringing of sheep husbandry to Greece from the east ; in other readings more schooled in mythology it would refer to golden grain, or to the sun.

The old story of Alcimede's son Jason and the quest for the golden fleece is most familiar from a late version, the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes.

On hearing the story, Rhiannon too went into the fort and found Pryderi stuck rigid and speechless to a golden bowl in the middle of the floor.

Driven by rich and fully drawn characters, this is a powerful, compelling story of a friendship that endures the devastation and finds a purpose for survival: to preserve the books, the shards of a lost golden age, as a gift to an unknowable posterity.

In the story, Rama goes chasing a golden deer ( which actually is the Rakshasa Maricha in disguise ), and does not return for a long time.

Research by the French ethnologist Michel Peissel claimed the story of " gold-digging ants " reported by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BC, was founded on the golden Himalayan marmot of the Deosai Plateau and the habit of local tribes such as the Minaro to collect the gold dust excavated from their burrows.

Greek tradition attributed the foundation of Polai to the Colchians, mentioned in the context of the story of Jason and Medea, who had stolen the golden fleece.

During the first three weeks of Big Brother Series 7, Channel 4 conducted a promotion in conjunction with Nestle to distribute 100 " golden tickets " randomly throughout Kit Kats, in a style reminiscent of the story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

One is the story of a golden age of equality, of mutual respect and cooperation, especially but not exclusively in Moorish Spain ; the other is of “ dhimmi ”- tude, of subservience and persecution and ill treatment.

In the story of Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples, the zmeu robs the king of the precious " golden apples "; a parallel can be drawn to the German fairy tale The Golden Bird, the Russian Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, and the Bulgarian The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples — although in all these other cases, the thief was a bird ( nevertheless, in some versions of the Romanian story, the zmeu does transform into a bird to steal the golden apples ).

The documentary hypothesis can be used to further understand the layers of this narrative: it is plausible that the earliest story of the golden calf was preserved by E ( Israel source ) and originated in the Northern kingdom.

Alternatively it could be said that there is no golden calf story in the J source, and if it is correct that the Jeroboam story was the original as stated by Friedman, then it is unlikely that the Golden Calf events as described in Exodus occurred at all.

" The author of E, in fashioning the golden calf story, attacked both the Israelite and Judean religious establishments.