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The Hero Overpowering a Lion, gypseous alabaster high relief with traces of paint from Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin), facade N of the throne room of the palace of Sargon II, Assyria (Iraq). Neo-Assyrian Empire, reign of Sargon...

Hero and Leander, watercolor by William Hamilton, 1801. Yale Center for British Art.

Colossal figure in the facade of the palace of Sargon II in Dur-Sharrukin. Drawing Flandin PL 41 by Paul-Emile Botta (1802-1870 CE), c. 1849 CE.

Liberty depends on courageous people willing to sacrifice. Today, you’ll learn the story of a hero, Passmore Williamson - along with William Still, Jane Johnson and others -...

The "Mšecké Žehrovice Hero" (also known as the "Mšecké Žehrovice Head") is a late 2nd Century BCE or early 1st Century BCE limestone bust of a Celtic warrior. The male figure wears a Celtic torc necklace, and has stylized...

The hero Grettir Asmundson from the 13th-14th century CE Icelandic Grettir's Saga (also Grettis Saga). This saga features one of the best-known stories involving a draugr, a sort of Norse zombie, who is eventually...

A painting portraying a Valkyrie taking care of a dying warrior. Valkyries were key figures in various Norse sagas such as Prose Edda, the Heimskringla and the Njáls Saga. They were maidens whose role was to participate...

This is the 4th tablet of the story of Etana, which tells us how Etana was carried to Heaven on the back of an eagle. Etana did this long journey in order to find the plant of birth. He was a Sumerian king of Kish...

Scene from Shahnameh: Rustam (or Rustum) shoots Isfandiyar in the eyes with a double-pointed arrow, from manuscript Ms. or. fol. 4251, Berlin State Library

Aillen, a sídh warrior, is said to have destroyed Tara, the spiritual center of Ireland and the seat of the High Kings, each and every Samhain for nine years. He is slain by Fionn mac Cumhaill, who pierces...