The Heroic Age is the term used for the sundry events of Greek Myth assigned to a period between the divine doings of a Greek cosmogony and the Fall of Troy already near historical times. Presumably, these events occurred in the archaeological context of a Mykenaian Civilization, between the Middle Bronze Age and the advent of the Iron Age (±1600–- 1100 BC). These events, or myths, are represented by such places as Mycenae and Tiryns in Argolis, Pylos in Messenia, Athens in Attica, Thebes and Orchomenos in Boeotia, Iolkos in Thessaly, and Knossos in Crete, as well as sites in Epirus and Macedonia, the Aegean isles, and the coast of Asia Minor.

However, the narrative subject-matter of the Heroic Age was assembled gradually, over a period of time, after the Iliad and Odyssey had been translated from their original lanuage in a Slavic dialect into an odd "Homeric" Greek, and become — - according to a universal perception—- patently Greek works. Eventually, the Homerization of Hellas —- that is, the assignation of some 330 geonyms from the Iliad and Odyssey to the Hellenic World scattered hither and thither— created a hopeless confusion in the rational understanding of "Greek Myth". Many pre-Greek accounts or allegories of an ancestral events lost their meaning and became nothing more than fantastic fairytales. Furthermore, many mythical stories were conceived centuries after the time and place when and where they were supposed to have occurred, but these were set in an artificial Homeric geography and consequently utterly devoid of any historical sense.