Golden Age

The Golden Age is a mythological period of primeval human existence perceived as an ideal state when human beings were pure and free from suffering.

The Golden Age is also used for any historical period in a field of endeavour that produced superlative achievements; see Golden Age (metaphor) for list of additional golden ages.

As time period

• The Golden Age, a period of time in Greek astrology.
• Golden Age of Athens, period of time in ancient Greek history from 448 BCE to 404 BCE.
• Golden Age of the Netherlands, spanning roughly the 17th century
• Golden Age of Capitalism, a period of rapid growth in the western economies from 1945-1970.
• Golden Age of Comic Books, a comic book period of the early-mid 20th century
• Golden Age of cricket, referring to the period between 1890 and 1914
• The Golden Age of Islam (Islamic Renaissance)
• Golden Age of Science Fiction, a period from the late 1930s or early 1940s through to the 1950s
• Golden Age of Television a period lasting from around 1949 until the early 1960s
• Golden Age of Radio, a period lasting from the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio in the late 1950s and early 1960s
• The Golden Age of Books, in the United States, a period during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century when books were the key source of entertainment and enlightenment.
• Golden Age of Video Arcade Games, a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings, from about 1978 to 1986
• Golden age hip hop, a period in hip hop music
• Golden Age of Piracy, the period roughly spanning from the 1680s to the 1720s

As name or title of literary work or publication

• A Golden Age, a novel by the Bangladesh born writer Tahmima Anam
• The Golden Age (magazine), a general-interest magazine published by Jehovah's Witnesses
• The Golden Age (newspaper) 1860-1864; publisher-editor John Gale, Queanbeyan Australia, changed name to The Queanbeyan Age in 1864; still in publication in 2008.
• The Golden Age (comics), a four-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics in 1993
• The Golden Age (play) by the Australian playwright Louis Nowra
• The Golden Age (Gore Vidal novel), a historical novel published in 2000 about Pearl Harbor as a false flag operation by the Roosevelt administration
• The Golden Age (Grahame), a 1925 book of reminiscences by Kenneth Grahame
• The Golden Age (John C. Wright novel), 2002 science fiction novel

As title of musical work

• "Golden Age", a song by Max Coveri
• "Golden Age", a song by Midnight Oil from their 2002 album Capricornia
• "Golden Age", a song by TV on the Radio from their 2008 album Dear Science
• The Golden Age (album) by the alternative rock band Cracker
• The Golden Age (Bobby Conn album), 2001 album by Chicago rocker
• The Golden Age (Legendary Pink Dots album), 1989
• "The Golden Age," a ballet by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
• "The Golden Age", a song by Beck on the 2002 album Sea Change and covered by The Flaming Lips on their 2003 EP Fight Test and by KT Tunstall on her 2006 album KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza
• "The Golden Age", an album by American Music Club

As title of audio book

• Golden Age, a special 2009 radio episode of the BBC TV series Torchwood.

Film titles

• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, a 2004 film about Broadway theatre by Rick McKay
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age, a 2007 film, sequel to the 1998 film Elizabeth
• Golden Age (internet series), a 2006 animated internet series later released as a film
• L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age), a 1930 surrealist movie by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
• The Golden Age, a video installation in the New Museum of Contemporary Art by the Los Angeles-based collective My Barbarian.

See also

• Golden Age (metaphor) (disambiguation)
• Golden Years (disambiguation)

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