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Many details about the battle were made up later in order to heroize the defenders.
The women want to heroize you, but I had to see you first, to clear up a few things.
Why would we want to heroize this guy?
The medieval European puppets - Punch, Petroushka, Pulcinella, et al. - were used to represent and heroize the common man.
History would forget these latter despicable beings, and speak, in latter ages of the glory of these grand Kings of forest and plain that Cooper loved to heroize.
In their extensive introduction, Ramos and Buenrostro argue that Rivera's outstanding fictionalization of memory resists the tendency to aestheticize and heroize the figure of the farm worker; which was a common practice of social realism during the decades of 1930 and 1940.
It's precisely because we understand the play-safe mentality that we heroise sportsmen.
The pose of the figure is linked to the sculpture as Millet was attempting to heroise the peasant that he was depicting.
But Gimes insists it was not his intention to "heroise or rehabilitate" his subject, but to "tell a story".
We do the Romans a disservice if we heroise them, as much as if we demonise them.