Question

This term derives from a period in Greek mythology during which humans and gods lived together. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this term for periods considered high points in a country's literary history, such as a "Spanish" period during which Miguel de Cervantes ("mee-GHEL day sair-VAN-tayz") wrote.
ANSWER: golden age [accept Spanish Golden Age or Siglo de Oro]
[10m] Dutch Golden Age author Johan van Heemskerk ("YOH-han van HAYMZ-kerk") wrote a book about a "Batavian" version of this place. The mythical Golden Age was said to have occurred in this place, which early modern writers depicted as a utopia inhabited by shepherds.
ANSWER: Arcadia [accept Batavian Arcadia or Batavische Arcadia]
[10h] In this book, often considered the first major prose novel of the Russian Golden Age, an archetypal "superfluous man" duels with Grushnitsky on a cliff.
ANSWER: A Hero of Our Time [or Geroj našego vremeni] (Pechorin is the superfluous man; A Hero of Our Time is by Mikhail Lermontov.)
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