"I, too, was drawn to accounts of the heroic past," Khan revealed.

Russia's new history lies, instead, in a gilded, heroic past, one of empire and royalty.

To seek a bridge to the heroic past.

"My personal tragedy," he said, "is to believe in the heroic past, while living in the unhappy reality of the present."

Shakespeare's relatively positive representation of Egypt has sometimes been read as nostalgia for an heroic past.

You must demonstrate that you are worthy of your heroic past.

He sees the shambles of a great, heroic past and wants to put the pieces back together again.

Kenos seemed to be a lone vestige of the Empire's heroic past.

Fifteen minutes now, he promised himself, with the heroic past.

Many were given names that evoked social distinction, noble birth or a heroic past in literature or history.