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And if in that very point we must note a resemblance to the Icelandic sagas , it seems to us that the dark family history of the Atreidai is not at all characteristic of Greek hero - mythology as a whole . Many figures of heroes and ...
And if in that very point we must note a resemblance to the Icelandic sagas , it seems to us that the dark family history of the Atreidai is not at all characteristic of Greek hero - mythology as a whole . Many figures of heroes and ...
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The legends of the Greek heroes on the other hand are as little elevated as their hero - cult . They are , rather , astonishingly realistic and anything but ethically idealis , ing , when they describe the human characteristics of their ...
The legends of the Greek heroes on the other hand are as little elevated as their hero - cult . They are , rather , astonishingly realistic and anything but ethically idealis , ing , when they describe the human characteristics of their ...
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The mythology of Greek heroes , although it is equally con cerned with god - men and with foundations , is characterised by the fact that its emphasis , its peculiar stress , is laid on the side of the human and by no means on the ...
The mythology of Greek heroes , although it is equally con cerned with god - men and with foundations , is characterised by the fact that its emphasis , its peculiar stress , is laid on the side of the human and by no means on the ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Heroes of the Greeks Myth and man |
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| Publisher | Thames and Hudson, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 439 pages |
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