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Lobera (Wolf Slayer), the sword of the king Saint Ferdinand III of Castile, inheritance of the epic hero Fernán González, according to Don Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena. [7] Tizona (also Tizón), the sword of El Cid, it frightens unworthy opponents, as shown in the heroic poem Cantar de Mio Cid. [8]
Pages in category "Greek mythological heroes" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abderus;
The four heroes from the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West. The concept of the "Mythic Hero Archetype" was first developed by Lord Raglan in his 1936 book, The Hero, A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama. It is a set of 22 common traits that he said were shared by many heroes in various cultures, myths, and religions throughout ...
“The Odyssey” has got its hero. Matt Damon will play Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic “The Odyssey.” ... said in December that “The Odyssey” is a “mythic action epic ...
Pay-to-play: 2002: 2005, 2017 [2] Ashes of Creation: Development 3D Fantasy Pay-to-play TBA Astonia III: Active 2D: Fantasy: Free-to-play: 2001: Originally pay-to-play until 2014 when the official servers shut down and the creator released the source code; thus, multiple fan-made communities emerged. Atlantica Online: Active 3D: Fantasy: Free ...
In Sophocles' play Ajax, a famous retelling of Ajax's demise, after the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Ajax feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and clouds his mind and vision, and he goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the Achaean leaders, including Odysseus and Agamemnon.
Greek myths were narratives related to ancient Greek religion, often concerned with the actions of gods and other supernatural beings and of heroes who transcend human bounds. Major sources for Greek myths include the Homeric epics , that is, the Iliad and the Odyssey , and the tragedies of Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides .
figures from the genre of minstrel epic are generally not included unless they are commonly discussed in secondary sources dealing with heroic epic in medieval Germany. gods and deities Although this list excludes Germanic deities , it includes other entities stemming from Germanic folklore that appear in the legends (such as valkyries , dwarfs ...