This is a marvelous book about an age during which people could afford "marvelous stuff".
There have been some seriously barbarous ages, during which human sacrifice was common.
The current epoch, the Holocene, is the 12,000 years of stable climate since the last ice age during which all human civilisation developed.
The two or three centuries following these disasters were indeed the most flourishing of the Aegean Bronze Age, during which Cretan civilization reached its zenith.
The final age, the antithesis of the Golden Age, was the Iron Age, during which the poet himself had the misfortune to live.
I wanted to learn about their social and emotional developments, particularly during adolescence — the age during which boys are most heavily stereotyped as stoic and only interested in one thing (i.e., sex).
He regarded the conflict with horror, as an "abyss of blood and darkness," a challenge to the most fundamental assumptions of "the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be … gradually bettering".
Beds, she claimed, made you soft and self-indulgent - this in an age during which clinics were being set up to get women out of bed, women who had given up, pulled shut the bedroom curtains, and slipped into neurasthenia.
Which goes to a theory of mine: I think that just as there are ages during which your brain can best learn new languages, there are ages when you are particularly open to certain songs.
World War I botched civilization -- the plunge of which "in this abyss of blood and darkness," wrote Henry James, "is a thing that... gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering".
