Word: heroical
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Mycenae, the citadel of Agamemnon, and the other strongholds of the Argive Plain, which all belong to the heroic times sung by Homer, had already fallen into ruin in the historical period. The traveller Pausanias visited them in the second century, A. D., and his description might well have been written in the first half of the present century, so exactly does it describe their condition before Schliemann and the Greek Archaelogical Society began their excavations. Today one may pass through the great gateways into the courts and halls of the palaces that were seats of royal residence...
...Greeks and Romans, said the lecturer in closing, were convinced that the citadel of ancient Troy had occupied the site of the later city of Ilion, although they were able to see nothing of the ruins of the settlement of heroic times. Can we, then, longer doubt that Troy has actually been found, when we see before us stately walls of heroic times, and when the great importance of the site is so clearly demonstrated by its frequent prehistoric settlement...
...them. They offered their services and lives to the country, just for love, and out of the determination that, if they could help it, the cause of freedom should take no harm. No mercenary motives can be attributed to any of them. This disinterestedness is essential to their heroic quality. The world has long since determined the limits of its occasional respect for mercenary soldiers. It admires in such only the faithful fulfillment of an immoral contract. The friends we commemorate here had in view no outward rewards near or remote...
...Lothaire," a poem by P. L. Shaw, is excellent. The heroic strain is artificial and the vocabulary crude, but the poem is decidedly well worth publishing. "The Little Conservatory Girl," by A. D. Sheffield is a well told story. The College Kodaks are weak, except the one about Dan, the Canuck...
...story which revolves around Phedre is an ancient one. Like many of the greatest masterpieces of the dramatic art, Racine's tragedy is founded upon the heroic fable. Racine had for prototypes the plays of Euripides, in Greek, and of Seneca, in Latin. He differs widely from Euripides, who has a different hero, but he is very similar to Seneca, both in treatment of plot and character. Profiting by the experience of his two classical models, Racine has given us the finest profane tragedy of the French drama...