... . Both were not easily impressed, considered themselves cursed and tended to be self-destructive. In Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, we find the first descriptions of the hero. Harold is described as a wanderer "Yet there I've wander'd by thy vaunted rill; Yes! sigh'd o'er Delphi's long-deserted shrine ... heroes in our current culture as well. A television show from a few years ago, Xena Warrior Princess, is about a female Byronic heroine. The character of Xena was introduced in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as a warrior-princess of exceptional skills. Many feared her bec...

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