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Heroism See also Bravery. Achilles Greek hero without whom Troy could not have been taken. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Trojan hero; legendary founder of Roman race. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] those accompanying Jason to fetch Golden Fleece. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 26] hero of the civil war between two royal houses of ancient India. [Hindu Lit.: Mahabharata] king and hero of Scotland, Wales, and England. [Arthurian Legend: Parrinder, 28] leads heroic defense by a group of Armenians against the besieging Turks; is killed by a Turkish bullet. [Ger. Lit.: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh in Magill I, 291] rider of Pegasus; conquered monsters and Amazons. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 42; Kravitz, 43] saved Danes from monster Grendel. [Br. Lit.: Beowulf] Spanish knight renowned for exploits against Moors. [Span. Hist.: EB, 4: 615–616] “the Achilles of the Gael.” [Irish Myth.: Benét, 239–240] challenges horseman, rescues a lady, and earns fame as a doughty soldier. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas The Three Musketeers] boy who slew Goliath. [O.T.: Samuel: 18:4–51] seeking his fortune abroad, he saves the life of King Louis XI, wards off attacks by the king’s enemies, and distinguishes himself in a seige. [Br. Lit.: Quentin Durward] knighted for chivalry by the Black Prince. [Br. Lit.: The White Company in Magill I, 1108] kills proud sea-kings, saves a king and queen from death, and defeats her brothers in battle. [Nor. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 275]
Viking adventurer whose exploits are related in The Grettisaga. [Icelandic Lit.: Magill I, 335] monkey deity, conqueror of demons, builder of a stone bridge from India to Ceylon. [Hindu Myth.: Collier’s, IX, 214] slew Hipparchus, brother of the tyrant Hippias. [Gk. Hist.: EB (1963) XI, 198] King Priam’s son; dies fighting for Troy. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] completed tasks requiring great bravery, strength, and ingenuity. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 448] last of the English; dies defending home-land. [Br. Lit.: Hereward the Wake, Magill I, 367–370] victorious captain of HMS Lydia and HMS Sutherland. [Br. Lit.: Captain Horatio Hornblower] leader of the Argonauts. [Gk. Myth.: Payton, 347] saved her city from the onslaught of Holofernes by beheading him during a drunken sleep. [Apocrypha: Judith 13:4-10] king held off thousands of Persians at Thermopylae with a few hundred men. [Gk. Hist.: Bénet, 578] stole divine fire for man’s sake. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 33] (1157–1199) nicknamed the Black Knight; performer of valorous deeds. [Br. Hist: EB, VIII: 566; Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe] 25th-century adventurer who combats menacing aliens and other villains in order to save the world. [Comics: Berger, 93] chief paladin of Charlemagne; renowned for his prowess. [Fr. Lit.: NCE, 2344] hero of Israel. [O.T.: Judges 13–16] killed many great heroes, won the fabulous hoard of the Nibelungs, and was made invisible by the blood of a dragon he had slain. [Ger. Myth.: Nibelungenlied in Magill I, 653] crusader renowned for his fighting helps capture Jerusalem from the infidels. [Ital. Lit.: Jerusalem Delivered; Ital. Opera: Rossini Tancredi] hero of Attica who slew the Minotaur, conquered the Amazons, and helped drive off the Centaurs. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton Mythology, 152]
the Nine nine heroes — three each from the Bible, from the classical period, and from medieval romance — who were frequently grouped together. [Pop. Culture: Brewer Dictionary, 694] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We talked of wrecks, of short ra tions and of heroism--or at least of what the news papers would have called heroism at sea--a mani festation of virtues quite different from the heroism of primitive times. It has everything in its favour: heroism, danger, bustle, fashion. During the continuance of the panic there occurred an instance of feminine heroism that I cannot omit to record. |
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