To understand American politics is, simply, to know people, to know the relative weight of names -- who are heroes, who are straw men, who controls, who does not.

While down there, along with the dead, he is shown the place where the wrongly convicted reside, the fields of sorrow where those who committed suicide and now regret it reside, including Aeneas ' former lover, the warriors and shades, Tartarus ( where the titans and powerful non-mortal enemies of the Olympians reside ) where he can hear the groans of the imprisoned, the palace of Pluto, and the fields of Elysium where the descendants of the divine and bravest heroes reside.

Lastly, his father shows him all of the future heroes of Rome who will live if Aeneas fulfills his destiny in founding the city.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.

The basic source for Judges was a collection of loosely connected stories about tribal heroes who saved the people in battle.

In the comics he fights along side the Marvel heroes against the heroes and people who have turned into zombies ( deadites ) while in search of the Necronomicon ( Book of the Dead ).

Factories and other organizations were often named after Partisans who were declared national heroes.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

In 1912 the teams name was changed to " Cleveland Molly McGuires " after the coal miners who were trying to establish a union and were regarded as " heroes ".

The Great Man Theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of " great men ", or heroes: highly influential individuals who, due to either their personal charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or political skill utilized their power in a way that had a decisive historical impact.

God graced me with being able, through such a singular sign, to reveal to my Lord my devotion and the desire I have that his glorious name live as equal among the stars, and since it is up to me, the first discoverer, to name these new planets, I wish, in imitation of the great sages who placed the most excellent heroes of that age among the stars, to inscribe these with the name of the Most Serene Grand Duke.

No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful.

However, after Nestor's chiding, nine Greek heroes step up to the challenge and draw by lot to see who is to face Hector.

Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to expose the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who played an important role as protectress of heroes.

After the death of Aegimius, his two sons, Pamphylus and Dymas, voluntarily submitted to Hyllus ( who was, according to the Dorian tradition in Herodotus V. 72, really an Achaean ), who thus became ruler of the Dorians, the three branches of that race being named after these three heroes.

Ivanhoe, though of a more noble lineage than some of the other characters, represents a middling individual in the medieval class system who is not exceptionally outstanding in his abilities, as is expected of other quasi historical fictional characters, such as the Greek heroes.

The group of heroes included the Boreads ( sons of Boreas, the North Wind ) who could fly, Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, Atalanta, and Euphemus.

The second is that the pre-Galfridian Arthur was a figure of folklore ( particularly topographic or onomastic folklore ) and localised magical wonder-tales, the leader of a band of superhuman heroes who live in the wilds of the landscape.

He and Odysseus were the only heroes who participated in tasks such as night missions which demanded discipline, bravery, courage, cunning and resourcefulness.

Strong Guy participated in the cosmic incidents known as the Infinity War, in the Earth super heroes ' war against the Magus.

The title also participated in the WildC. A. T. s-oriented " Wildstorm Rising " crossover that saw the heroes try to gain control of the Daemonite battleship, which turned out to be the Kheran Ship instead, with WildC. A. T. s eventually leaving for Khera.

He participated in the attempted takeover of the Avengers Mansion while the other heroes were distracted by the events of the Infinity War.

Jason assembled a great group of heroes, known as the Argonauts after their ship, the Argo.

Eventually many of the leading heroes assembled into a team known as the Avengers.

Among the Romans, the heroes assembled by Meleager for the Calydonian hunt provided a theme of multiple nudes in striking action, to be portrayed frieze-like on sarcophagi.

Two teams of heroes are assembled to stop Gnosis and bring back the Users, which will include new characters and Lens the Codemaster, who appeared for one episode in Season two.

Before they vanish, Batman instigates a contingency plan, in which a handful of heroes would be assembled to create a new JLA, consisting of Nightwing, Green Arrow, the Atom, Hawkgirl, Major Disaster, Faith, Firestorm and Jason Blood.

When it was discovered that Loki's intentions were never altruistic, and that his gift was badly flawed-as one of the costs of those powers was the loss of individual creativity and imagination-the assembled heroes turned against him.

The assembled heroes, along with others, go after the Red Tornado / Amazo android, who, thinking himself to be John Smith, goes to see John ’ s family.

The assembled heroes manage to neutralize Amazo.

The 2099 line was concluded with a one-shot, 2099: Manifest Destiny ( March 1998 ), in which Captain America was found in suspended animation and, with Miguel O ' Hara, assembled various 2099 heroes into a new team of Avengers.

However this incarnation of Vandal Savage is less a threatening, scheming villain and more a likeable, roguish thug, still a force to be reckoned with but bound to a deep-seated respect for " his fellow immortals " Etrigan and Madame Xanadu, even taking a place among the assembled heroes.

The irony was not lost on the assembled heroes, who reflected that a frail teenaged boy had succeeded where all of their collective might had failed.

As Miss America attempts to reveal the truth about Tex Thompson and Dynaman before the assembled heroes, she is murdered by Robotman, who knew but didn't care about Tex and Dynaman's secrets.

Thanos reveals to the assembled heroes that the Magus was tricked and never gained omnipotence as the Reality Gem on the Gauntlet — which Thanos is revealed to be the secret guardian of — was a convincing fake.

Some of the Army of Thunderbolts, consisting of Venom ( Mac Gargan ), Lady Deathstrike, Taskmaster, Bullseye, Jester, Jack O ' Lantern join Songbird assembled as the Pro-Registration side's task force to hunt down Anti-Registration heroes at the end of Civil War # 4, but never officially saw any real combat.

Despite the assembled heroes remembering him as a slacker, good for nothing, they find him maintaining an Eternal Honeymoon dimension, a pocket dimension for the few people he managed to save from the apocalypse, where he resides torturing himself ( and comforting himself at the same time ) with imagery and illusions of his now dead family.

This Iron Man has since become the villain Iron Maniac, being kept in stasis in a Helicarrier, while the Titannus of Earth-616 was defeated by a team assembled by Doctor Strange when he detected Titannus's arrival only after Titannus had destroyed most of Tokyo in a rampage, his violent approach leaving the heroes less inclined to trust him than they had been in this world.

Kulan Gath's forces were easily able to overwhelm the assembled heroes who were captured and forced to watch as Kulan Gath performed the ceremony necessary to kill Peliali.

In the mini-series Mys-Tech Wars ( 1993 ), by Dan Abnett and Bryan Hitch, their forces fought most of the Marvel Universe's assembled heroes.

Once exposed, Sentinel attempted to fight his way out of the citadel and regain the book, but was taken down by the assembled heroes and imprisoned by Supreme.

Cloak played a small part in the Infinity Gauntlet saga, and was among the heroes assembled by Adam Warlock to fight Thanos.

Bill is later seen amongst a group of heroes assembled by Amanda Waller to invade the island stronghold of Eclipso, a villain that can take over minds.

As the new Eclipso, he joins the short-lived team of loose-cannon heroes assembled by Black Adam, which was the subject of the subsequent storyline " Black Reign ".

Eight heroes from the Dragonlance novels series must be assembled for the quest, and only one is visible on the screen at a time ; when one on-screen hero dies, the next in line appears.

The assembled heroes construct a technological means of destroying the Sun-Eater.