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Heros
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The story of Superman is functionally now a mythological influence to heroic characters within other stories that are meant to serve as mythological influences to us real-world humans. His seems to be a sort of prime contemporary hero story from which other contemporary hero stories emerge and draw their influence.
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― The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth
― The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth
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The poetry of Homer, sprung from the soil of legend, is not yet wholly detached from it, even as the figures of a bas-relief adhere to an extraneous backing of the original block. These figures are but slightly raised, and in the epic poem all is painted as past and remote. In bas- relief the figures are usually in profile, and in the epos all are characterized in the simplest manner in relief; they are not grouped together, but follow one another; so Homer's heroes advance, one by one, in succe
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― Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
― Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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