... -). In ancient Greek mythology and literature, especially as delineated by Euripides' senior colleague, Sophocles in his Oedipus Tyrannos, a hero was an individual who possessed a firmness of purpose more intense and steadfast than that of ordinary people. The hero had his own ideal vision of what was right and never swerved from that vision. And in making that vision a reality, he routinely aided ... frame in which they operate, mark her as a heroic character, one of those characters whose purpose was specific, whose defiance of threats and advice, whose refusal to betray their own idea...

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