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Classical hero's, Perseus, Oedipus, A hero's life, The culture…
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Perseus
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Gods: Zeus, Athena & Hermes
Oedipus
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Prophecy he will kill his father and marry his mother. Not knowing he is adopted he leaves his adoptive parents to only kill is biological father on the road and marry his biological mother and have kids with her. When Oedipus figures out what has happened he stabs his out turning blind
Oedipus complex - Siegmund freud
- attraced to mother and feud with father
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A hero's life
- a divine and royal parentage / supernatural brith
- raised by foster (parents) and/or is educated by a non-human mentor in the wilderness
- sets of on a quest comissioned by an enemy, often to collect something
succeeds but with the help of a super natural guide / magical attributes / a woman
- the pivotol event is the victory over a monster
- return, death of father, inauguration as the new king
The culture hero
- Saves the land from a 'pre-cultural' monster
- the monster usually can be associated with the wilderness and/or with the primordial chaos
- it now becomes possible to establish a cultural order with rules and laws
- the hero's story is thus part of an ongoing narrative of creation
- in Ancient Greece, Zeus is the principle of protecter of law and order
- Zeus is often connected with the hero as father and or commissioner
- the story often ends with the establishment of a cult, usually devoted to zeus
Herakles
- the greek monster slayer par excellence
- a quest man who constantly sets out to defeat monsters and collect things
- the son and instrument of Zeus
- a traveling culture hero who expands the borders of civilized human world
- became an Olympian god after his apotheosis because he helped fight the Giants
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Herakles
- Kill the Nemian Lion
- Killing the Lemean Hydra*
- capture (alive) the Cerneian Hind - a deer sacred to Artemis
- To capture the Erymanthian Boar
- to clean the stables of King Augeus
- To drive out the Stymphalian birds from a swamp
- to capture the Cretan Bull
- Involves capturing the mares of Diomedes
- To retrieve the Girdle of Hippolyta - queen of the amazons
- to steal the cattle for Geryeon
- to retrieve apples from the garden of the hesperides fights the info out of Nereus, Dragon - Ladon
- Go to the underworld and kidnap cerberus
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- The greek monster slayer par exellence
- A quest Man who constantly sets out to defeat monsters and collect things
- the son and instrument of Zeus
- a traveling culture hero who expands the borders of the civilized human world
- incredibly popular
- became an olympian God after his apothesis
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Argonauts
- Hercules strongest man alive
2 Orpheus charmer of nature and master of music
- Castor & Pallox the twin tricksters hatched from an egg
- The boreads sons of the North wind who could hurdle through air
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apothesis = A place on the south side of the chancel in primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments
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