They were not serious poems, but light and often licentious skits on the heroic myths.

It is unique among Greek tragedies in treating a recent historical event rather than a heroic or divine myth.

At first with heroic myths, and epics of the hunt.

They devise heroic myths, and delight in fantasies of direct intercourse with a cosmic person.

It fits uncomfortably into our heroic national myth of 1939-1945, but an army of accountants worked during the war.

A heroic myth was in the making.

But there is no doubt that many of his generation did and do still appeal to the heroic myth.

I take the reasons for this to lie in the heroic myth shared by doctors and public.

It was a delicious retelling of a naive and heroic American myth, an antidote to doubt.

"In contrast, football comes from a heroic myth, a myth of war," he continued.