The truth is that he has become a mythic figure.

As mythic figures, poets have multiple and often contradictory origins.

Characters would often be mythic figures, whether ancient or modern: people who, again, already have a place in our minds.

This mythic figure is with us - he is us - in bad times and good.

And it is loaded with mythic Western figures in addition to the noble marshal.

Illuminated from below, three mythic figures crowned a large clock.

Nor is King here the mythic figure who has become our only undisputed contemporary hero.

After all, I'm supposed to be a sort of, ahem, mythic figure.

He's like this huge sort of mythic figure.

Time is compressed, and a mythic figure is brought down to human scale.