Strangely enough, I was discussing the heroic pattern with a friend today. A variation is the hero who gets sacrificed at the end for the greater good. Examples: the Gospels and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (maybe).
I always remember my clasics prof in 2nd year telling us about the mythic hero pattern and explaining that "Kadmos does not follow this pattern because he did not realize he was in a myth." That and him asking, "What did it take to be considered heroic in Ancient Greece? Well, first of all you had to be maked."
Someone else does it once, they're ripping someone off. Someone does it a thousand times, they're cliched. Someone does it ten thousand times, they have a genre. Someone does it millions of time, Joseph Cambel writes a book about it.
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Date: 2005-11-23 10:52 pm (UTC)Thunder: Stolen!
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Date: 2005-11-23 03:36 am (UTC)That and him asking, "What did it take to be considered heroic in Ancient Greece? Well, first of all you had to be maked."
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