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California State University, Northridge - Fall 2012 | ||
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 | The Heroic Ideal: Western Archetypes from the Greeks to the Present by M. Gregory Kendrick Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-7864-3786-3 / 0786437863 ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-3786-3 / 9780786437863 The word "hero" seems in its present usage, an all-purpose moniker applied to everyone from Medal of Honor recipients to celebrities to comic book characters. This book explores the Western idea of the hero, from its initial use in ancient Greece, where it identified demigods or aristocratic, mortal | |