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Holding Out for a Hero (in Ancient Greece)
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What’s a “hero”, and what kinds of stories do we tell about them? Emily and Cam explore how heroes were imagined in ancient Greece as they lay the groundwork for next episode’s discussion of Eleven’s heroic journey in Stranger Things.
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Pylades, Orestes, and Elektra perform rites at the tomb of Agamemnon. Painted in the late fourth century BCE on an amphora made in one of the Greek cities of southern Italy (which is now held at the MFA in Boston). Photo by Emily.
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00:11 - Introduction
01:15 - What is a hero?
- 01:33 - Some modern definitions of hero
- 02:52 - The roots of the word “hero” in ancient Greek (and maybe earlier)
- 04:12 - The various meanings of “hero” in ancient Greece: leaders, godlike heroes, and mortals given divine honors
- 13:09 – The flexibility of the hero concept in ancient Greece, and some examples: Achilles, Sarpedon, Theagenes of Thasos, and Kleomedes of Astypalaia
- 20:15 – Death and the hero in ancient Greece, and some strange cases: Asklepios and Herakles
26:51 - The stories we tell about heroes
- 27:39 – Two models of the “hero’s journey”: Joseph Campbell, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, and David Adams Leeming, “Mythology”
- 30:57 - A digression on problematic treatments of gender in hero studies
- 33:40 - Odysseus as the Cambell-style “everyman” hero
- 36:00 - Herakles as the Leeming-style “Chosen One”
- 42:26 – Coda: Alexander the Great and Herakles
44:17 - Wrap-up and teaser for our next episode on Stranger Things’ “Eleven”
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