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Hero stories begin as local legends that legitimate local kings by making their rule depend on descent from or performance of heroic acts.
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Hero stories begin as local legends that legitimate local kings by making their rule depend on descent from or performance of heroic acts.
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"Being a king means not doing whatever you want. Being a king means to serve the people so the people will celebrate you and..."
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"Okay? And that's how you justify your kingship through these acts of heroism that's related to you in stories. Okay? That's the first step...."
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"...The Iliad. The Iliad is Achilles. He wants to be a hero, but he gets into a fight with Menelaus. Oh, sorry, not with..."
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"...in Italy and the Latin tribes see Aeneas as this great hero. And the king there, Latinus, marries Aeneas. He marries his daughter to..."
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"...a mockery of the king's throne and to be a great hero of the king's throne and to be a hero of the of..."
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"...girlfriend, and then broadcast it on Instagram, and then you're a hero, okay? Of course, what we don't discuss is that this system is..."
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"So that's real hero of the story, okay? This is a story she tells herself. She doesn't even think about the reaction of Menelaus,..."
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"...back at home, or I could die young as a great hero in the shores of Troy. And of course, that's not really a..."
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"...see him as the Messiah. They see him as this great hero who will cause the triumph of Christianity and the return of Jesus...."
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"...prove he's better than his father. He wants to become a hero himself, but he's being burdened by the legacy of his father. The..."
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"...and he wins this great war and he becomes this great hero, then Timarchus himself will be famous as a son of Odysseus. People..."
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"...I, dear god, my life so cursed by fate. I fathered hero sons in the wide realm of Troy, and now not a single..."
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