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Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the 'Tragic Hero'

Book by Isolde Standish; Curzon Press, 2000

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Fiction, Heroes In Motion Pictures, Masculinity--Japan, Motion Pictures--Japan--History, Myth In Motion Pictures, World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Motion Pictures And The War

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...historians of Japanese cinema similarly established an orthodox theory of Japanese film. Here I am using orthodox in the classical Greek sense of the word: orthos right and doxa opinion . In their attempts to link Japanese cinema to Zen Buddhism and such ephemeral...
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The Hero and the Sea: Patterns of Chaos in Ancient Myth

Book by Donald H. Mills; Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002

Subjects:

Bible--O.T--Exodus--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Bible--O.T--Genesis--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Epic Poetry--History And Criticism, Heroes In Literature, Heroes In The Bible, Poetry, Ancient--History And Criticism, Sea In Literature, Sea In The Bible

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...Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press...University of Chicago Press, 1977. Penglase, Charles. Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric...
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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology

Book by Otto Rank, F. Robbins, Smith Ely Jelliffe; Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing, 1914

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Heroes, Mythology, Psychology, Pathological

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...31 See Roscher, concerning the Ion of Euripides. Where no other source is stated, all Greek and Roman myths are taken from the Extensive Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology , edited by Roscher, which also contains a list of all sources.
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American Heroes, Myth and Reality

Book by Marshall W. Fishwick; Public Affairs Press, 1954

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Heroes, United States--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...themes and traits in heroes has convinced some...contends that all myths and worlds redeemed...maintains that all heroes are contained in...usually presented in Greek tragedy--the agon or struggle of hero and villain; the...European sagas the hero has a distinguished...Undoubtedly, all heroes stand on somewhat...
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Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod

Book by Charles Penglase; Routledge, 1994

Subjects:

Hesiod--Theogony, Hesiod--Works And Days, Homeric Hymns, Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian, Mythology, Greek

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...which is one of the myths in which Enki is the hero. The reason is the rivalry...of other parts of the Greek tradition. The rebel...of Atrahasis and the Greek myth, the rebel deity is...die, however, as the Greeks considered their gods...The Nature of Greek Myths, p.260: immortality...

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Hero Myths: A Reader

Journal article by Steven F. Walker; Folklore, Vol. 115, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Hero Myths: A Reader (Book)--Book reviews

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...best choice for "Comic Hero"? Some minor quibbles...classified as "Ancient Greek," but the text selected...happy" as an "Absurd Hero." However, the choice...excerpt from Camus The Myth of Sisyphus would certainly...the strong point of Hero Myths: A Reader is that it...spread of the study of myth and folklore in undergraduate...
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Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths

Journal article by Daniel B. Levine; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...What We Can Learn from Myths. by Daniel B. Levine...modern re-tellers of Greek myths often distort for...are central to ancient Greek myths; they do not care...or her assertion that Greek myths "can still offer...other ways that ancient Greeks could have found solace...athletic contests, hero worship, festivals...
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Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, and the Myth of the Hero

Journal article by Marinos Pourgouris; International Fiction Review, Vol. 32, 2005

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Greek literature--Criticism and interpretation, Kazantzakis, Nikos--Criticism and interpretation, The Last Temptation of Christ (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

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...Nietzsche, and the Myth of the Hero. by Marinos Pourgouris...instruction about how the Greeks got over their pessimism...becomes an anti-hero in Nietzsches mind...that this Nietzschian hero must encounter are...Eliades conception of myth as a "faithful repetition...
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Gender, Myth, and Memory, Ethnic Continuity in Greek-American Narrative

Journal article by Katherine Zepantis Keller; MELUS, Vol. 20, 1995

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Ethnicity in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Greek Americans--Authorship, Immigrants--Bibliography

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Gender, myth, and memory, ethnic...known novels of the Greek immigrant experience...immigrants, the Greeks of the nineteenth...immigrant is the hero of a novel, in...both cases, the myth of a diaspora was...Greek ethnie, a myth fostered by both...continuity of a Greek language. The resultant...layering" of myths, values, genres...known. For those Greeks who sought Ameriki...
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Sam Peckinpah's Heroes: Natty Bumppo and the Myth of the Rugged Individual Still Reign

Journal article by Leonard W. Engel; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 16, 1988

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Novels, Peckinpah, Sam

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...Peckinpah similarly creates a myth, but one that dramatizes...rebirth. Peckinpahs myth, also highlighted by...traits of our archetypal heroes from an earlier time...Billy the Kid, and since myths do not require surprises...instinctively know he inhabits a myth, and also that both...This choice makes him a hero, of course, but it...and the epic heroes of Greek and Roman mythology...

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What Islam Did for Europe: The Conflict between Islam and the West Can Be Traced Back to a Myth That Inaccurately Painted Muslims as the Killers of a Christian Hero. Now, Scholars Are Beginning to Reassess the Fundamental Role That Muslims Played in Shaping Western Civilisation

Magazine article by Jason Webster; New Statesman, Vol. 137, April 21, 2008

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Christian-Muslim relations--Portrayals, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Christianity and other religions--Portrayals, East and West--Portrayals, East-West relations--Portrayals, God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Islam--Portrayals, Islam--United Kingdom

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...West Can Be Traced Back to a Myth That Inaccurately Painted Muslims as the Killers of a Christian Hero. Now, Scholars Are Beginning...13th centuries, from where Greek and Arabic learning rendered...as the killers of a Christian hero. This throws up many interesting...
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The Myth of Charismatic Leaders: It Can Be Foolish, Futile, and Even Dangerous to Follow Leaders Just Because They're Charismatic. Be Careful of Hero Worship, and Step Forward

Magazine article by Joseph A. Raelin; T&D, Vol. 57, March 2003

Subjects:

Charisma (Psychology)--Analysis, Leadership--Analysis

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

The Myth of Charismatic Leaders...it belongs nor to the hero (without whom the followers...Charisma comes from the Greek word meaning "gift...profile tends to be: the hero who can save us! Meindl...without charismatics, or heroes. It wont be easy. Though...explain the future. Hero worship is outdated in...
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The Virtue of the Weaponed Hero

Magazine article by Almira F. Poudrier; The Humanist, Vol. 61, July 2001

Subjects:

Courage--Ethical aspects, Heroes--Portrayals, Morality of war--Myths and legends, War and morals--Myths and legends, Weapons--Myths and legends

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...the spear of the Greek warrior aristocrat...and parcel of every myth of every hero of the...sometimes even names. The heroes themselves often got...sheltered from the weapon-hero association without...the exploration of the hero and the killing tool...revealing. This is because heroes can be righteous. They...represent. For the Greeks, filial piety and elite...made the stories and myths more attractive, more...
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Made in Myth

Magazine article by Tom Meaney; New Criterion, Vol. 22, June 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy (Book)--Book reviews

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Made in Myth. by Tom Meaney James...that Deucalion--the Greek Noah--brought down...discontinuous territories on the Greek mainland, stretching...presented few problems to the Greek conscience, were not...versions of the Troy-bound hero. When these maidens returned...
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Anastasia: the Myth of the Miraculous Survival

Magazine article by Tim Callahan; Skeptic, Vol. 6, 1998

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...to the myth of the hero in general. Arthur...Siegfried). In Greek myth Theseus, raised...all three of these myths we find the elements...promised to another hero. Thus the origin...opposing the use of the hero myth in the service of...people to be their own heroes, rather than by...

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Don't Believe Greek Myths: I Have Met Hard Workers There

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 6, 2011

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Greek mythology

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Dont Believe Greek Myths: I Have Met Hard Workers...particular men - one Greek, the other British by...the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor...made of the modern-day Greek tragedy that has been...commentators now speak of the Greeks as if they are somehow...
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Toppling the Spanish Is No Greek Myth

Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), October 9, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Toppling the Spanish Is No Greek Myth. Byline: Gavin Berry GREEK hero Stelios Giannakopoulos was...similar in personality to the Greeks. Two of my closest friends...for their lives - just as the Greeks did in Zaragoza. He said...
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Greek Myths

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 1, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Greek Myths. Byline: By DUNCAN...likely to hear the heroes and tragedies of Greek...here) were all the heroes mentioned above, and...to have a different hero every month. So in...told how far these heroes had to travel, but...
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One Actor, One Hour, One Great Myth; Preview Odyssey Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 1, 2010

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Actors, Actresses, Arts centers, Greek mythology

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...One Hour, One Great Myth; Preview Odyssey Aberystwyth...Centre. HOMERS timeless Greek myth has been reinvented by...andmainly centres on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey...
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MORE MYTH THAN HIT... DVDReleases

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 23, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MORE MYTH THAN HIT... DVDReleases. CLASH OF THE...AVATAR star Sam Worthington brings the Greek myths to life with the help of Gemma Arterton...Fiennes and Pete Postlethwaite. He plays hero Perseus, the demi-god son Zeus, who...

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