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Heroes are corporeal beings, and they are often admired for the physical achievements that they have performed and/or that are attributed to them. The corporeality of heroic figures is therefore an important point of reference for heroizations and at the centre of numerous hero (re)presentations and narratives. In essential terms, a differentiation must be made…

In general terms, heroic virtue can be described as an extraordinary virtue which corresponds to a degree of moral excellence which exceeds normal human capabilities or is bestowed upon human beings only as a divine gift. The idea that such a superhuman virtue existed proved to be a useful concept in the ideology and rhetoric…