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	Hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous (compare villain).
		For example, the circumstances of the hero's conception are unusual; an attempt is made by a powerful male at his birth to kill him; he is spirited away; reared by foster-parents in a far country.
		In modern movies, the hero is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against him or her, typically prevails in the end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero (1538 words)

	Myth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		myth from (mythos) identifies a sacred story or narrative containing supernatural, divine or heroic beings, arranged in a coherent system, passed down orally, and linked to the spiritual or religious life of a community.
		Myths are often set in mythical time, a time before time or history begins, and are intended to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths" and "founding myths"), natural phenomena, inexplicable cultural conventions, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
		In this sense myth is distinct from fiction, legend, fairy tale, folklore, fable and tale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myth (470 words)

	Mythic Imagination Institute
		Myth promises another vision, a vision of the City - the City of the Mall triumphant - its promiscuity, not its purity, the misogynation of the nation of the peoples, their images, their stories, interpenetrating concourse of the imagination.
		The heroic aspect in Joseph Campbell's work was that it is all, in a sense, dedicated to this vast panoply of images of myths, of the Gods of all the worlds and all the peoples.
		Myth simply tells a just so story of things as they are, all the nuances, the complexities, the pathologies, the interweaving plots, their twists and peculiarities.
	www.mythicjourneys.org /newsletter_apr05_hillman.html (1565 words)

	The American Heroic Myth
		The word hero is defined as a legendary figure, often of divine descent, endowed with great strength or ability.
		Heroism is man's attempt to fulfill a higher purpose, it is the basis for character development, ethical living, and critical thought.
		The heroic myth serves as a model for all men who wish to be free.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig2/liebermann2.html (1114 words)

	Michael Zimmerman - We Need New Myths
		Myths do not serve their symbolic function unless they are internalized by someone; only then can they provide guidance and unification.
		The myth of the hero usually tells the story of an individual called away from the monotony of everyday life in order to begin the quest for the Self, often represented by an extraordinary object (Holy Grail) or person (beautiful Prince or Virgin).
		The game arising from this myth would provide opportunities for people to find ways of completing themselves, integrating their shadows, becoming whole, through the process of competing with an "enemy." An enemy is useful to motivate a person to discover and integrate those areas which one represses, denies, or projects.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC20/Zimmrman.htm (3925 words)

	Artículo Carolyn C. Cooper, Myth, Rumor and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Myths presumably evoked feelings of awe and admiration for the gods and heroes, and they provided convenient answers for children, who were always asking questions.
		One reason biographical myths about heroic inventors of the nineteenth century persist in history books today is that they began outside the gradually adopted canons of writing history and in their earliest written form supply no telltale footnotes by which to check authenticity.
		Another probable reason heroic inventor myths persist is that technological changes in the nineteenth century, which were profoundly important and perceived as such at the time, involved complicated, prolonged, and ambiguous social, economic, and political interactions by many persons.
	www.infoamerica.org /teoria/articulos/rumor.htm (5268 words)

	Outline13-bellerophon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Thus, heroic myth once again centers on the family unit.
		argued that heroes were not originally historical figures (cf.
		the myth denies the suppressed wish of the child.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/bigmyth303/Outline14-bellerophon.html (1203 words)

	Timeless Myths' FAQs
		Myth can usually be said to be a narrative of god or human with superhuman ability involved in a events or circumstances that are extraordinary and unusual.
		Myth on the deities and mankind are normally accounts that tell of how the world, gods, and mankind were created, as well as the relationship of gods and human.
		Other popular metamorphoses was heroes or heroines, or beasts that was transformed into one of the many constellations in the sky, such as hero Perseus, or the giant crab killed by Heracles, that became the constellation Cancer.
	www.timelessmyths.com /faq.html (4502 words)

	Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER TWO: Heroines and Mortals
		In such myths, the heroine takes on a purely metonymic function, by which the whole woman comes to be represented exclusively by her childbearing abilities, that is to say, her womb.
		75 The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, trans.
		In the writings she examines, as in the heroic myths, children are assumed to be male, while women are necessarily mothers.
	www.pup.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_2.html (14272 words)

	Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER ONE: Heroines and Heroes
		He considers heroes in their relation to a number of mythic and religious themes, both as figures in myth or epic taking part in a variety of relationships--social, familial, and religious--and as the focal points for cults embodying many of the diverse aspects of Greek ritual practice.
		In considering the relation of a particular hero to healing, to choose one example, he discusses in turn the hero as a healer in myth, and the role of healing in the cult of that hero.
		Such heroes would normally have no individual cult, but were nevertheless conceived as belonging to a generation that still enjoyed the protection of the gods and shared, to a varying extent, their supernatural capabilities, in favoured cases their very blood." Kirk (1970) 176.
	pup.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_1.html (11747 words)

	Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER THREE: Mortals and Immortals
		[¶8.] The opposition between hero and god may be presented as enmity of the god toward the hero or as presumption or hybris on the part of the hero.
		The hero was either a cult-founder or priest of the god; or a son, protégé, or beloved of the god; or was buried in the temple as a kind of expiation; or finally, performed some extraordinary service to the community.
		Many of the myths of resistance to his cult involve the defiance of women, usually groups of sisters, like the daughters of Kadmos, who deny their sister Semele's claim to have borne the child of a god, and the Minyades, all of whom suffer madness as the price of refusing his worship.
	pup.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_3.html (14438 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.21
		After a review of the etymology of the word heros and an analysis of the different Greek terms for heroine, Lyons presents an overview of the literary sources for her study, particularly catalogue poetry, drama, and the guidebook of Pausanias.
		The half-divine birth of the hero, the very beginning of his story, is often the end of the story for the mortal parent, the mother.
		She again argues against Farnell's notion that these figures are really "faded gods" and not heroines at all, insisting that "this possibility of transcending heroic status is paradoxically one of the characteristics of heroines, and that this does not in any way undermine the integrity of the category but rather gives it its specificity" (130).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.07.21.html (1864 words)

	Jesus Creed » The Mentored Life 2
		Houston begins his argument for a return to the “mentored life” by examining the “Heroic Myth of Odysseus.” In this myth, Houston suggests we see all the characteristics of individualism and narcissism that stand as obstacles to the mentored life.
		In contrast to Odysseus’ “heroic myth”, Houston describes the life of 17th century mystic Francis Fenelon and a series of essays he wrote based on the “Myth of Mentor” in which Fenelon was inspired to lead a life of obscurity without social or external recognition.
		And, Houston’s study of the Myth of Mentor, the mentor for Telemachus, son of Odysseus, exposes the eagerness our society has for the narcissistic, self-made, individualistic person — who can go it alone, who can meet the challenge, who embodies the American dream of climbing every mountain that is seen.
	www.jesuscreed.org /?p=479 (1668 words)

	Greek Mythology: Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If a hero is properly defined as somebody who does something dangerous to help somebody else, then the heroes of Greek mythology do not qualify.
		They were a pretty selfish bunch, often with additional antisocial tendencies thrown into the bargain--in other words, not exactly role models for the younger generation of today.
		So let's recognize and celebrate Hercules and Perseus and the others by their proper dictionary definition: "In mythology and legend, a man or woman, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his or her bold exploits, and favored by the gods."
	www.mythweb.com /heroes/heroes.html (118 words)

	Campus Magazine Online: The Indispensable Source for Campus News and Commentary - Hungry Souls and Brave Hearts: The ...
		Heroes are rarely honored in their own time.
		It would be difficult, for instance, to overstate the importance of the Homeric epics in shaping the culture of Ancient Greece or the impact of the story of Cincinnatus on generations of Roman soldiers.
		The novelist or director must, of course, be true to the general outlines of the story and the character of the heroes.
	www.campusmagazine.org /articledetail.aspx?id=90a0cf18-62b8-4709-8f4e-cff58684dc75 (2359 words)

	Understanding by Design Exchange
		Looking at our culture, students will create a modern day myth illustrating one of the virtues that Greek culture valued that is still valued today.
		Create a myth set in today's world that illustrates a virtue of Greek society that we still value in today's society.
		Your myth should be creative, entertaining, organized, well-crafted, and illustrate Greek values.
	www.cheney268.com /UbDUnits/cms/Mythconception.htm (564 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The durability of the Camelot myth, even in light of subsequent revelations about the Kennedy years, remains a tribute to the vision and determination of the former First Lady.
		Kennedy's strong desire to rename Cape Canaveral after her husband was evidence of her wish to impart the power of the Camelot myth to America's space race with the Soviets, Ms.
		What the Camelot myth obscured, she explained, was "the reality that Kennedy won the presidency with one-tenth of one percent of the vote" and that at the time of the assassination, his administration was still stained by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and shaken by the brinkmanship of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	www.virginia.edu /insideuva/textonlyarchive/95-12-08/4.txt (507 words)

	Mad Max, Mythology and the Millennium
		In Joseph Campbell's influential The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the monomyth is defined as, "The standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula represented in the rites of passage: separation-initiation-return "(p 30).
		As Campbell asserts, the passage of the hero is fundamentally inward, "into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world" (p 29).
		If the hero in his triumph wins the blessing of the goddess or the god and is then explicitly commissioned to return to the world with some elixir for the restoration of society, the final stage of his adventure is supported by all the powers of his supernatural patron.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /~mickbrod/postmodm/m/text/madmax.html (5748 words)

	HISTORY OF MEXICO - THE "HEROIC CHILDREN": REALITY OR MYTH? - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
		According to one body of revisionist thinking, the cadets were fictitious, no such event ever took place and the whole story was simply a propagandist invention.
		As cadets at the Colegio Militar, all six of the "heroic children," were thoroughly inculcated with its patriotic and meritocratic spirit.
		The canard that the "heroic children" never existed is exploded by the fact that quite a bit is known about them.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtninosheroes.html (890 words)

	Rustaveli and the Epic Tradition
		Epic heroes have at least two primary traits in common: they are both connected to the realm of the Unknown Other and their adventure carries them out into that Other.
		Queen Tamar is the object of the poet’s devotion, and she is represented by the heroic women in the poem, just as the poet’s own alter ego is the series of heroes in love with those women.
		The positive portrayal of his Muslim heroes suggests, rather, an open-mindedness which is quite typical of Georgian cultural history, but extraordinary for the world at large (especially during Rustaveli’s era, the height of the Crusades) and the epic poetry across it.
	faculty.tui.edu /sharpek/UnionSeminar2004A/Papers/Soltes.htm (2221 words)

	cl360.htm
		In order to benefit from this class and to succeed in it, you should have good reading and writing skills.English 214 (or its approved equivalent) is a prerequisite for all upper-division courses.
		To read, discuss, analyze and compare classical myth within the Greek and Roman traditions; to understand the nature and function of myth in society; to explore the ways in which mythology illuminates ancient Mediterranean cultures.
		Reading A schedule of lecture and discussion topics and reading assignments is attached.In addition to assignments from the required texts, I will distribute additional material throughout the semester.Be sure to have the reading assignments completed before class discussion.If you miss any handouts, pick up what you missed during my office hours.
	online.sfsu.edu /~kmillet1/clas360.htm (589 words)

	Star Wars Origins - Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In other words, Jung believed that everyone in the world is born with the same basic subconscious model of what a "hero" is, or a "mentor" or a "quest," and that's why people who don't even speak the same language can enjoy the same stories.
		Alfred Nutt (1856-1910) observed a few underlying commonalities of myth from his studies of the Celts, in his The Aryan Expulsion-and-Return Formula in the Folk and Hero Tales of the Celts (1881).
		Lévi-Strauss's efforts to isolate the "atomic elements" of myth are well-considered and interesting, though his writing style is extremely dense, self-referential and oblique, so you'd probably need to read this book at least three or four times before you even begin to understand what he's trying to communicate.
	www.jitterbug.com /origins/myth.html (1192 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| The truth about Jessica
		Her Iraqi guards had long fled, she was being well cared for - and doctors had already tried to free her.
		This Sunday, the BBC's Correspondent programme reveals the inside story of the rescue that may not have been as heroic as portrayed, and of divisions at the heart of the allies' media operation.
		As for Lynch, her status as cult hero is stronger than ever.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,956255,00.html (1989 words)

	Jessica Lee Jernigan: Work: Literary Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jane is the center of the story, but the only ending for her is marriage.
		When your hero attempts to escape the bottomless pit that is post-structuralism for the material comforts of biography, his project immediately disintegrates: the subject he has chosen is not a sturdy collection of facts, but something of a chimera.
		Phineas ends up, rather unwillingly, filling in the gaps in his narrative with scenes from his own life, making the resulting text a sort of demonstration of the very postmodernism Phineas rejects.
	jessicaleejernigan.typepad.com /work/literary_theory (587 words)

	Politicians And Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power Of Metaphor
		Each chapter of this book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroic leaders.
		Among his subjects are Churchill (who invoked a heroic myth), Martin Luther King, Jr.
		(a messianic myth), and Margaret Thatcher (the myth of the female fighter).
	www.booksmatter.com /b1403946892.htm (102 words)

	Lecture10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Greek myth, the anxiety does not seem to center on us/them, but on family relationships and changes of identity.
		Lord Raglan: heroes were not mythologized historical figures, but mythological figures connected to ritual.
		Rites of passage, W/R and the heroic journey are variations of a common story pattern.
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~jlfriend/lecture10.html (391 words)

	Shotgun Players
		Euripides challenges the heroic myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece in this monumental tragedy, written in 431 BC at a time of civic anxiety and patriotic fervor as Athens prepared for war.
		“In the myth of Jason’s bloody quest for the Golden Fleece, acts of violence and passion are seen as heroic.
		In this play, as in real life, murder is tragic, not heroic.” Euripides imbues the character of Medea with an implacable will-to-power.
	www.shotgunplayers.org /archive/seas11/medea/medea.cfm (815 words)

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