Thursday, August 30, 2012

Greatest Epic Heroes of Myth and Folklore

I'm sick of superheroes. The heroes of mythology and ancient epic poems were essentially the superheroes of their times, but somehow are so much more interesting and heroic to me. A lot of their appeal comes in the fact that their origins are unclear; some of them are clearly fictitious, and others may have basis in fact. Nevertheless, this is a list of the greatest of them, indicating what land created their myth.

  1. King Arthur (England)
  2. Beowulf (England)
  3. Hercules/Heracles (Greece)
  4. Robin Hood (England)
  5. Sinbad (Persia)
  6. Odysseus (Greese)
  7. Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
  8. Aeneas (Rome)
  9. Achilles (Greece)
  10. Perseus (Greece)
  11. Paul Bunyan (USA)
  12. Kaurava (India)
  13. Fionn mac Cumhaill (Ireland)
  14. Theseus (Greece)
  15. Chingachgook (USA)

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