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On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history.
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ISBN: 0520075153 9786612356650 1282356658 0520911539 9780520075153 Year: 1993 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the most influential statement of a man who came to be thought of as a secular prophet and the "undoubted head of English letters" (Emerson). His vivid portraits of Muhammad, Dante, Luther, Napoleon-just a few of the individuals Carlyle celebrated for changing the course of world history-made On Heroes a challenge to the anonymous social forces threatening to control life during the Industrial Revolution.In eight volumes, The Strouse Edition will provide the texts of Carlyle's major works edited for the first time to contemporary scholarly standards. For the general reader, its detailed introductions and annotations will offer insight into the author's thought and a reconstruction of the diverse and often arcane Carlylean sources.

Greek heroine cults
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ISBN: 0299143740 9780299143749 Year: 1995 Publisher: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press,

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The meaning of Nolan Ryan
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ISBN: 0585071268 9780585071268 0890965749 0890965757 9780890965740 9780890965757 Year: 1994 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,

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A fascinating analysis of Nolan Ryan's career and the media hype surrounding it.

The divine man : his origin and function in hellenistic popular religion
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ISBN: 0820402990 9780820402994 Year: 1986 Volume: 17 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Lang

Baby and child heroes in Ancient Greece
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ISBN: 0252029291 Year: 2004 Publisher: Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press,

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Gottmenschen : Konzepte existentieller Grenzüberschreitung im Altertum.
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ISBN: 3884766082 Year: 2003 Publisher: Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verl. Trier

Cultes "héroïques" romains : Les Fondateurs
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ISBN: 2251328408 9782251328409 2251915192 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres,

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An archaeology of ancestors : tomb cult and hero cult in early Greece
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ISBN: 0847679411 084767942X Year: 1995 Publisher: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing,

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The Goddesses' henchmen : gender in Indian hero worship
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ISBN: 1280704004 0195348346 9780195348347 9786610704002 6610704007 9780195154252 0195154258 9780195154269 0195154266 9781280704000 0197739377 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This title examines the worship of ancestral heroes in Rajasthan, India. Arguing that Rajput hero stories and songs encapsulate and express ideals of perfection and masculinity, it analyzes representations of wives and goddesses as tacit allies dispatching sacrificed heroes to heavenly paradise.

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