In Heroes, Fry draws out the humor and pathos in both tender love affairs and heroic battles, and reveals each myth's relevance for our own time. Perhaps these characteristics are as necessary to a hero as courage." Self-belief, self-possession, self-righteousness, self-confidence, self-love. The emphasis to start with is the line of Perseus. He saw too lots of words beginning with 'self', which gave him pause. The characters that Fry examines in turn are Perseus, Heracles and his 12 labors, Bellerophon, Orpheus, Jason, Atalanta, Oedipus, and Theseus. "Mostly Chiron saw in the child, and the young man he became, boundless courage, athleticism, intelligence, and ambition.
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