The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

Catullus and Callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods ( except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e. g. poems 63 and 64 ), focusing instead on small-scale personal themes.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

When Cleisthenes divided the ancient Athenians into new demes for voting, he consulted the Oracle of Delphi about what heroes he should name each division after.

Another possibility for the buildings is that they are shrines to heroes and soldiers of ancient times, but the lock on the inside makes no sense for such a purpose.

In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers ( the Laos or army ) in wise and appropriate action.

Even the Gods and heroes were primarily depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and Alexander the Great conquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies.

While opera seria deals with gods and ancient heroes and only occasionally contained comic scenes, opera buffa involves the predominant use of comic scenes, characters, and plot lines in a contemporary setting.

In ancient Greece the laurel was sacred to the god Apollo, and was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and heroes.

Greek heroes also act in accordance with individuality, but in ancient tragedy such individuality is necessarily ... a self-contained ethical pathos ... In modern tragedy, however, the character in its peculiarity decides in accordance with subjective desires ... such that congruity of character with outward ethical aim no longer constitutes an essential basis of tragic beauty ..." ( Hegel, ed.

Her mythological birthplace was the Sparta of the Age of Heroes, which features prominently in the canon of Greek myth: in later ancient Greek memory, the Mycenaean Bronze Age became the age of the Greek heroes.

Greek mythology consists of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their religious practices.

The Argonauts (, Argonautai ;, Argonavtebi ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis ( ancient Georgian Kingdom ) in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.

Jason was accompanied by some of the principal heroes of ancient Greece.

In ancient times there was obviously no knowledge of dinosaurs or mammoths, and such findings were believed to be actual remains of legendary heroes or demigods, and to reflect the supposedly supernatural stature of humans of the long-bygone Heroic Age.

Most of the knowledge about Ogmios comes from comparisons between him and powerful deities and heroes in other ancient cultures.

Almost all of the knowledge about Ogmios comes from the comparisons of him to other deities or divine heroes of different ancient cultures.

Accordingly, it is debated whether Hermóðr might not have been the name of one or more ancient heroes or kings as well as the name of a god or whether the god mentioned by Snorri was in origin the same as an ancient hero or king named Hermóðr.

Akkadian Atrahasis (" extremely wise ") and Utnapishtim (" he found life "), as well as biblical Noah (" rest ") are similar heroes of flood legends of the ancient Near East.

Anansi is part of a lineage of heroes whose powers stem from an ancient amulet, which grants powers of illusion and the ability to adhere to any surface.

When Billy first meets him, Shazam tells Billy that his name is an acronym for six ancient heroes.

* The game " Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken " has a character named Roland, one of the ancient heroes of the Scouring, who passes the sword Durandal to the main character.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors () were a group of semi-mythological rulers and culture heroes from ancient China during the period circa 2852 BC to 2070 BC.

In classical antiquity, hero cults that venerated deified heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and Achilles played an important role in Ancient Greek religion.

Foundations myths documented by classical authors connect the foundation of numerous Cypriot towns with immigrant Greek heroes in the wake of the Trojan war.

Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes — among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times — the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.

Cato the Younger and the many classical examples of self-destruction described in Plutarch's Lives appealed to the imaginations of young Italian patriots as they had done in France to those of the heroes and heroines of the Gironde.

In Judaism, there is no classical or formal recognition of saints, but there is a long history of reverence shown toward biblical heroes and martyrs.

Bentley was the first Englishman to be ranked with the great heroes of classical learning and was known for his literary and textual criticism.

Bentley was the first Englishman to be ranked with the great heroes of classical learning.

While the Bible describes David as a beautiful youth, and we can accept a classical basis for the pose and the nudity of the statue ( Greco-Roman heroes were typically portrayed as nude males standing in contrapposto ), there are nevertheless several disconcerting elements to Donatello's David.

The nudity can be explained by David's refusal to wear armor in his confrontation with Goliath, as well as by references to classical heroes, but the fact that he wears a hat and boots makes no sense in terms of either the Biblical narrative or the classical connection and tends to make his lack of clothing seem strange.

The literary genre of myths of transformations of men and women, heroes and nymphs, into stars ( see Catasterismi ), plants and animals, or springs, rocks and mountains, were widespread and popular in the classical world.

According to the medieval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.

However, the adjectives used to describe Telemachus —" blameless ", " discerning ", and " decent "— are words with positive connotations in other of Tennyson's poetry and within the classical tradition, where " blameless " is an attribute of gods and heroes.

This treatment of elements from Greek mythology is similar to that of the Old French literary cycle known as the Matter of Rome, which was made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar-where the protagonists were anachronistically treated as knights of chivalry, not much different from the heroes of the chansons de geste.

There are three main mythical elements of the novel: classical stories alluding to foundations and origins, characters resembling mythical heroes, and supernatural elements "

Mann's dramas verged on classical tragedy, often showing anguished heroes attempting to resolve personal pain and confusion.

Instead of dealing with heroes from classical literature or the Bible, presented with spectacle and grand stage effects, his subjects concerned everyday people, such as his audience, the theater-going middle classes, and his tragedies were conducted on the intimate scale of households, rather than kingdoms.

In this way, he is less like the effervescent and reflective Shakespearean heroes / heroines such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear and Cleopatra, and more like figures from ancient classical literature such as Achilles, Odysseus, and Aeneas — or, to turn to literary creations from Shakespeare's time, the Marlovian conqueror Tamburlaine, whose militaristic pride finds its parallel in Coriolanus.

While ordinary people had always been the subject of comedies, classical and neo-classical theorists asserted that tragic heroes should always be men of noble rank.

Foundations myths documented by classical authors connect the foundation of numerous Cypriot towns with immigrant Greek heroes in the wake of the Trojan war.

In classical literature, epics are considered works focused on deeds or journeys of heroes upon which the fate of a large number of people depend.

In the anime series Ronin Warriors, all of the heroes and villains are representative of different concepts of virtue as well as the classical elements ( in the case of the series ' heroes ) or seasons ( in the case of the villains ).