... demonstration of physical strength and raw courage. Long after the splendor of Greek culture, the earliest heroic tradition in English literature evolved from the pagan tradition. The pagan tradition "stressed the necessity of endurance in the face of adversity and the importance of the deeds of courage performed by individual warriors in the ... human kind. The hero and his heroic conduct constitute the guidelines for the mere mortals to follow. One of the earliest heroic epics in English Literature is Beowulf. This heroic epic is kept in the tradition of Classical Greek mythology, whe...

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