The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Each is still glorified as a national hero.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

As the hero, Mitchell Courtenay, explains before his conversion, the job of advertising is `` to convince people without letting them know that they're being convinced ''.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

he is far from being a literary hero, yet is a creative artist.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Marcellus, the hero, is beset from all sides by the problems of approaching manhood.

In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock-strewn gully.

For the hero of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam session.

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

However, at the same time Montgomery selects as his hero De Gaulle, who is a militarist dominated by political ambitions.

With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

In the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes, his secret identity is historical fact, with exhibits at a Superman Museum depicting the hero and his friends and family's adventures.

The hero / detective of these novels is typically a traditional judge or similar official based on historical personages such as Judge Bao ( Bao Qingtian ) or Judge Dee ( Di Renjie ).

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The classic hero often came with what Lord Raglan ( a descendant of the FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan ) termed a " potted biography " made up of some two dozen common traditions that ignored the line between historical fact and mythology.

The tomb was still there in historical times, and the inhabitants of Dyme honored Sostratus as a hero.

In the late 19th century the Cymru Fydd movement recreated him as the father of Welsh nationalism, revising the historical image of him and joining him in popular memory as a national hero on par with King Arthur.

At a point in dialogue between the skaldic god Bragi and Ægir, Snorri himself begins speaking of the myths in euhemeristic terms and states that the historical equivalent of Víðarr was the Trojan hero Aeneas who survived the Trojan War and went on to achieve " great deeds ".

Category: Greek historical hero cult

Category: Greek historical hero cult

An important historical site is Fort Jackson, built in 1822 as recommended by General Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.

She wrote several other historical novels, successful and much reprinted in their day, although this Jacobite Trilogy, featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remain the best known.

Unusual for an American public works project, it is not named for a government official, politician, a local hero or a person of historical interest but for its first chief engineer.

Category: Greek historical hero cult

Category: Greek historical hero cult

It is worth noting that there are two other versions of the comment in other unofficial historical records: " capable minister in peaceful times, unrighteous hero in chaotic times " and " sinister foe in peaceful times, great hero in chaotic times.

Novelist Jayne Ann Krentz ( writing as Amanda Quick ) has the hero of her historical novel I Thee Wed ( 1999, second book in the Vanza series ) use them as bodyguards for his fiancee.

Clavell's hero was inspired by the historical William Jardine, and the Noble House of Struan's is modelled on the real-life " Princely House " of Jardine, Matheson & Co of Hong Kong.

* The hero of Rafael Sabatini's historical novel Scaramouche, and its film adaptations, is a similar swashbuckling character who goes incognito in the theatrical role of Scaramouche.

* Boudicca-Queen of the Iceni, based on the historical hero of the same name

* Horatius Cocles, a hero in the historical legends of ancient Rome

A tragedy typically ended with the death or destruction of a fictional or historical hero, whereas a comedy focused on the lives of middle to lower class characters and ended with their success.

The hero is frequently a historical figure of some military consequence in the history of the nation where the mountain is located.

In his studies of Serbian folklore, Čajkanović also concluded that many more benevolent aspects of Dažbog were passed on to popular saints in folk Christianity, in particularly onto St. Sava, Serbian national saint, who, although undoubtedly was a real historical person, in folk tales often appears in the role of culture hero.