Table of Contents
194 relations: A Greek–English Lexicon, Achilles, Acropolis of Athens, Action hero, Adonis, Age of Enlightenment, Altruism, Alvin York, Anatomy of Criticism, Ancient Greek, Anna Karenina, Annales school, Anti-predator adaptation, Antihero, Aphrodite, Apollonius of Tyana, Athena, Audie Murphy, Axis occupation of Greece, Batman, Biography, British Film Institute, Byronic hero, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Captain America, Captain of industry, Carnegie Hero Fund, Causa sui, Christopher McDougall, Chuck Yeager, Civilization, Class conflict, Classical antiquity, Classics, Comic book, Common good, Counterfactual history, Courage, Crete, Culture hero, Decipherment, Deiphobus, Demigod, Demography, Destiny, Dilemma, Donor (fairy tale), Dramatis personae, Dumuzid, Economics, ... Expand index (144 more) »
- Epic poetry
- Good and evil
- Heroes
- Jungian archetypes
- Literary archetypes
- Mythological characters
A Greek–English Lexicon
A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott or Liddell–Scott–Jones (LSJ), is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language originally edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie and published in 1843 by the Oxford University Press.
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Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.
Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens (Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.
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Action hero
An action hero (sometimes action heroine for women) is the protagonist of an action film or other form of entertainment which portrays action, adventure, and often violence. Hero and action hero are heroes.
Adonis
In Greek mythology, Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Altruism
Altruism is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals above oneself.
Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 prisoners.
Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) is a book by Canadian literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye that attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina (p) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.
Annales school
The Annales school is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history.
Anti-predator adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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Antihero
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero) or anti-heroine is a main character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality. Hero and antihero are heroes.
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Apollonius of Tyana
Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious leader from the town of Tyana, Cappadocia in Roman Anatolia, who spent his life travelling and teaching in the Middle East, North Africa and India.
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Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Audie Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter.
Axis occupation of Greece
The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (the occupation) began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Kingdom of Greece in order to assist its ally, Italy, in their ongoing war that was initiated in October 1940, having encountered major strategical difficulties.
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Batman
Batman is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.
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Byronic hero
The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Captain America
Captain America is a superhero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Captain of industry
In the 19th century, a captain of industry was a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.
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Carnegie Hero Fund
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, also known as Carnegie Hero Fund, was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of those killed saving or attempting to save others.
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Causa sui
Causa sui is a Latin term that denotes something that is generated within itself.
Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall (born 1962) is an American author and journalist.
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Chuck Yeager
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (February 13, 1923December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
Class conflict
In political science, the term class conflict, or class struggle, refers to the political tension and economic antagonism that exist among the social classes of society, because of socioeconomic competition for resources among the social classes, between the rich and the poor.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
Comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
Common good
In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, general welfare, or public benefit) is either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service.
Counterfactual history
Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions.
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Courage
Courage (also called bravery, valour (British and Commonwealth English), or valor (American English)) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
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Culture hero
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery. Hero and culture hero are mythological archetypes.
Decipherment
In philology, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts.
Deiphobus
In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Δηΐφοβος|Dēḯphobos) was a son of Priam and Hecuba.
Demigod
A demigod is a part-human and part-divine offspring of a deity and a human, or a human or non-human creature that is accorded divine status after death, or someone who has attained the "divine spark" (divine illumination).
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Demography
Demography is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
Destiny
Destiny, sometimes also called fate, is a predetermined course of events.
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Dilemma
A dilemma is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.
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Donor (fairy tale)
In fairy tales, a donor is a character who tests the hero (and sometimes other characters as well) and provides magical assistance to the hero upon their success.
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Dramatis personae
Dramatis personae (Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list.
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Dumuzid
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (𒌉𒍣|Dumuzid; italic; Tammūz), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻|Dumuzid sipad) and to the Canaanites as '''Adon''' (Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar).
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Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Epic Cycle
The Epic Cycle (Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.
Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
Erechtheus
Erechtheus (Ἐρεχθεύς) in Greek mythology was a king of Athens, the founder of the polis and, in his role as god, attached to Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus".
Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective.
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.
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Fates
The Fates are a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently represented as a trio of goddesses.
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Fernand Braudel
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian.
FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan
Fitzroy Richard Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan FRAI (10 June 1885 – 14 September 1964) was a British soldier, author, and amateur anthropologist.
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Folk hero
A folk hero or national hero is a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films. Hero and folk hero are heroes and mythological archetypes.
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus.
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Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.
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Germanic heroic legend
Germanic heroic legend (germanische Heldensage) is the heroic literary tradition of the Germanic-speaking peoples, most of which originates or is set in the Migration Period (4th-6th centuries AD). Hero and Germanic heroic legend are epic poetry.
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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (In his native Ligurian language, he is known as Gioxeppe Gaibado. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as Jousé or Josep. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican.
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Globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
Glory (honor)
Glory is high renown, praise, and honor obtained by notable achievements, and based in extensive common consent.
Great man theory
The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior intellect, heroic courage, extraordinary leadership abilities, or divine inspiration, have a decisive historical effect. Hero and great man theory are heroes.
Greek hero cult
Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
Handicap principle
The handicap principle is a disputed hypothesis proposed by the Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi in 1975.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hector
In Greek mythology, Hector (label) is a Trojan prince, a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War.
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Helping behavior
Helping behavior refers to voluntary actions intended to help others, with reward regarded or disregarded.
Henry Liddell
Henry George Liddell (6 February 1811– 18 January 1898) was dean (1855–1891) of Christ Church, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1870–1874), headmaster (1846–1855) of Westminster School (where a house is now named after him), author of A History of Rome (1855), and co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work A Greek–English Lexicon, known as "Liddell and Scott", which is still widely used by students of Greek.
Hera
In ancient Greek religion, Hera (Hḗrā; label in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.
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Heracles
Heracles (glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.
Hero (given name)
Hero is a given name of Ancient Greek origin meaning "hero".
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Hero and Leander
Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ἡρώ, Hērṓ), a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and Leander (Λέανδρος, Léandros; or Λείανδρος), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.
Hero of Socialist Labour
The Hero of Socialist Labour (Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991.
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Hero's journey
In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed. Hero and hero's journey are mythological archetypes.
High fantasy
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great
History of Friedrich II.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
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Honour
Honour (Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Immortality
Immortality is the concept of eternal life.
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Iphigenia
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia (Ἰφιγένεια) was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae.
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (translit; Jehanne Darc; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer.
Judith Fetterley
Judith Fetterley (born 1938) is a literary scholar known for her work in feminism and women's studies.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
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L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.
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Laius
In Greek mythology, King Laius or Laios (Láïos) of Thebes was a key personage in the Theban founding myth.
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Legend
A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.
Leonid Grinin
Leonid Efimovich Grinin (Леони́д Ефи́мович Гри́нин; born in 1958) is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist.
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language.
List of female action heroes and villains
The following is a list of female action heroes and villains who appear in action films, television shows, comic books, and video games and who are "thrust into a series of challenges requiring physical feats, extended fights, extensive stunts and frenetic chases." Elizabeth Abele suggests that "the key agency of female action protagonists is their ability to draw on the full range of masculine and feminine qualities in ever-evolving combinations.".
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List of genres
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.
List of stock characters
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works.
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Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy is a work of collective biography on the formative authors of the heroic fantasy genreTymn, Marshall B. "Guide to Resource Materials for Science Fiction and Fantasy Teachers," The English Journal, v. 68, no.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lucien Febvre
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history.
Marc Bloch
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian.
Marilyn Price-Mitchell
Marilyn Price-Mitchell (born March 1, 1949) is an American psychologist, author, columnist, speaker, and youth development expert.
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Messiah
In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
Minotaur
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (. Μινώταυρος; in Latin as Minotaurus) is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
Moral development
Moral development focuses on the emergence, change, and understanding of morality from infancy through adulthood.
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Moral example
Moral example is trust in the moral code of a role model.
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K. Miller (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
Oedipus
Oedipus (Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed.
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle.
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841.
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Osiris
Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pankration
Pankration (παγκράτιον) was an unarmed combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC.
Patroclus
In Greek mythology, Patroclus (generally pronounced; glory of the father) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and an important character in Homer's Iliad.
Peleus
In Greek mythology, Peleus (Ancient Greek: Πηλεύς Pēleus) was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles.
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Perseus
In Greek mythology, Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.
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Philip Zimbardo
Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Philosophy of history
Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline.
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Physical strength
Physical strength is the measure of an individual's exertion of force on physical objects.
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Pindar
Pindar (Πίνδαρος; Pindarus) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.
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Poseidon
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.
Post-classical history
In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 CE to 1500 CE, roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages.
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Pre-Greek substrate
The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown Pre-Indo-European languages spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Proto-Greek language in the region, during the Early Helladic period.
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Pride
Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself".
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a story.
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
Quest
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. Hero and quest are fantasy tropes.
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Randian hero
The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of 20th-century novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainheads Howard Roark and Atlas Shruggeds John Galt.
Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Reluctant hero
The reluctant hero is a heroic archetype typically found in fiction. Hero and reluctant hero are heroes.
Rescue
Rescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, removal from danger, liberation from restraint, or the urgent treatment of injuries after an incident.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Robert S. P. Beekes
Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.
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Robert Scott (philologist)
Robert Scott (26 January 1811 – 2 December 1887) was a British academic philologist and Church of England priest.
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Romantic hero
The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the center of their own existence. Hero and Romantic hero are heroes and literary archetypes.
Scholia
Scholia (scholium or scholion, from σχόλιον, "comment", "interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of the manuscript of ancient authors, as glosses.
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Screenonline
Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.
Self-sacrifice
Self-sacrifice is the giving up of something that a person wants for themselves so that others can be helped or protected or so that other external values can be advanced or protected.
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher of pragmatism known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the philosophy of education, political theory, and ethics.
Social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
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Sophie Scholl
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Soter
Soter derives from the Greek epithet σωτήρ (sōtēr), meaning a saviour, a deliverer; initial capitalised Σωτήρ; fully capitalised ΣΩΤΗΡ; feminine Soteira (Σώτειρα) or sometimes Soteria (Σωτηρία).
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Sovereignty
Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.
Space opera
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
St. Martin's Press
St.
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Subject and object (philosophy)
The distinction between subject and object is a basic idea of philosophy.
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Superhero
A superhero or superheroine is a stock character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero; typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime. Hero and superhero are heroes.
Superman
Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Hero and Superman are literary archetypes.
Supervillain
A supervillain or supercriminal is a variant of the villainous stock character.
Sword and sorcery
Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.
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Terror management theory
Terror management theory (TMT) is both a social and evolutionary psychology theory originally proposed by Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, and Tom Pyszczynski and codified in their book The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life (2015).
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Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths. Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theory has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists.
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Theseus
Theseus (Θησεύς) was a divine hero and the founder of Athens from Greek mythology.
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Thetis
Thetis (Θέτις) is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands.
Tragic hero
A tragic hero (or tragic heroine if they are female) is the protagonist of a tragedy. Hero and tragic hero are heroes.
Trojan War
The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.
Troy
Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.
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Twelve Olympians
relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver) and Apollo (lyre) from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40.
Vanity Fair (novel)
Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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Villain
A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction. Hero and villain are fantasy tropes, good and evil, literary archetypes, mythological archetypes and mythological characters.
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Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.
Warrior
A warrior is a guardian specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste.
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Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary is any of the English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), an American lexicographer, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.
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Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a superheroine created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), and artist Harry G. Peter in 1941 for DC Comics.
Yoav Shamir
Yoav Shamir (יואב שמיר), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films Checkpoint and Defamation.
Youxia
Youxia was a type of ancient Chinese warrior folk hero celebrated in classical Chinese poetry and fictional literature.
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Zeitgeist
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist (capitalized in German) ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history.
See also
Epic poetry
- Acritic songs
- Albanian epic poetry
- Arabic epic literature
- Athletics in epic poetry
- Bosniak epic poetry
- Bylina
- Cantar de gesta
- Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara
- Chanson de geste
- Duma (epic)
- Epic catalogue
- Epic poems
- Epic poetry
- Epic poets
- Female epic
- Germanic heroic legend
- Hazaj meter
- Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry
- Hero
- Ibitekerezo
- Indian epic poetry
- Itihasa-Purana
- Kângë Kreshnikësh
- Karisi
- Katabasis
- Laisse
- List of world folk-epics
- Mongol epic poetry
- Pabasa (ritual)
- Philippine epic poetry
- Sanskrit literature
- Sepha
- Serbian epic poetry
- Spenserian stanza
- Sīra shaʿbiyya
- The Song of Hiawatha
- Yukar
Good and evil
- Absence of good
- Don't be evil
- Evil
- Evil laughter
- Good
- Good and evil
- Hero
- Heroes
- Lesser of two evils principle
- Moral evil
- Natural evil
- Necessary evil
- Omnibenevolence
- Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom
- Ponerology
- Problem of evil
- Radical evil
- Righteousness
- Satan
- Spiritual warfare
- Three wise monkeys
- Villain
- Villains
- Wickedness
Heroes
- A Real Hero
- Action hero
- America: A Tribute to Heroes
- Antihero
- Christ figure
- False hero
- False protagonist
- Folk hero
- Great man theory
- Hero
- Hero (Enrique Iglesias song)
- Hero (Mariah Carey song)
- Hero (title)
- Hero syndrome
- Heroes for My Daughter
- Heroes' Acre, Pretoria
- Heroes' Day
- Heroes' Day (Namibia)
- Heroes' Day (South Africa)
- Heroes' Square (Budapest)
- Heroic fantasy
- List of folk heroes
- Man alone
- María Concepción Loperena
- Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice
- National Garden of American Heroes
- Order of the National Hero (Antigua and Barbuda)
- Reluctant hero
- Romantic hero
- Secular saint
- Superhero
- Superheroes Are Everywhere
- Tragic hero
- Youngest son
Jungian archetypes
- Anima and animus
- Apollo archetype
- Apollonian and Dionysian
- Archetypal pedagogy
- Character pairing in The Lord of the Rings
- Child archetype
- Collective unconscious
- Cosmic Man
- Goddess
- Goddesses
- Hero
- Jester
- Jungian archetypes
- Magician (fantasy)
- Martyr
- Martyrs
- Mentor (Odyssey)
- Mother goddess
- Persona (psychology)
- Polytheistic myth as psychology
- Puer aeternus
- Self in Jungian psychology
- Shadow (psychology)
- Trickster
- Warriors
- Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman
- Wise old man
- Witch (archetype)
- Wounded healer
Literary archetypes
- Archetypal literary criticism
- Artful Dodger
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- Byomkesh Bakshi
- Carol S. Pearson
- Charles Pooter
- Don Juan
- Don Quixote
- Evil Queen
- Fagin
- Faust
- Frankenstein
- Hero
- Heroes
- Honza
- John Falstaff
- Jungian archetypes
- La belle juive
- Lucifer and Prometheus
- Macbeth
- Mary Sue
- Merlin
- Monkey mind
- Morgan le Fay
- Mr Sowerberry
- Mr. Bumble
- Pedro Urdemales
- Personifications
- Prince Hamlet
- Prospero
- Ravens in Native American mythology
- Robin Hood
- Romantic hero
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sexton Blake
- Shakespearean characters
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shylock
- Stock characters
- Superman
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Trickster
- True love's kiss
- Villain
- Villains
- Vishakanya
- Wandering Jew
- Witch (archetype)
- Zorro
Mythological characters
- Aayaase
- Akhshar and Akhsartag
- Alardy
- Aminon
- Balla Fasséké
- Ciguapa
- Count of St. Germain
- Deities
- Demigods
- Dinanukht
- Dolus
- Domnina (daughter of Nero)
- Fælværa
- Haemyts
- Hermes Trismegistus
- Hero
- Inahi no Mikoto
- Kalku
- Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu
- Legendary progenitors
- Llŷr
- Lunar pareidolia
- Magnes the shepherd
- Man in the Moon
- Mohan (legendary)
- Mythological creatures
- Nunong Karugtong
- Renpetneferet
- Rishabhanatha
- Safa (mythology)
- Satanaya
- Shield-maiden
- Sihuanaba
- Sosruko
- Sovij
- Trauco
- Tutyr
- Uacilla
- Uryzmaeg
- Villain
- Wandering Jew
- Warhag
- Warlocks of Chiloé
References
Also known as Act of heroism, Classical hero, Female hero, HEROES, Heores, Hero (Greek religion), Hero (Greek), Heroine, Heroines, Heroism, National heroes, Naval hero, Sporting hero, Sports hero, War Hero, World hero.