Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Hero worship
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Hero worship
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Hero worship
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Christopher Wood
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683158
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674244192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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