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• Achilles [r]: Greek hero who fought and died in the Trojan War. ^[e]
• Aeneas [r]: Trojan hero of the epic story by the Roman poet Virgil called the Aeneid. ^[e]
• Prometheus [r]: From Greek mythology, he was the son of Iapetos and helped all humans by bringing fire, according to the Theogony. He tried to trick Zeus by offering, as the first sacrifice, the worst part of the meat; to retaliate, Zeus hid fire, but Prometheus stole it for people to use. Prometheus was punished by being tied up and having an eagle eat his liver each day, but it grew back each night. He was eventually freed by Heracles, according to Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics scholar and authority on Greek mythology and Greek tragedy including the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, and Virgil. This definition is based on her course Classical Mythology from The Teaching Company. ^[e]

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• Anti-hero [r]: A leading character in a work of literature whose qualities are the opposite of heroic. ^[e]
• Superhero [r]: Fictional figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. ^[e]

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• Biography [r]: A narrative account of a person's life. ^[e]
• Conall Cernach [r]: A hero of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. ^[e]
• Cú Chulainn [r]: The teenage hero of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, sometimes referred to as "the Irish Achilles" for his choice of a short but glorious life. ^[e]
• Film [r]: A visual medium involving the recording and display of images in motion over time, generally by photographic means. ^[e]
• Geography [r]: Study of the surface of the Earth and the activities of humanity upon it. ^[e]
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner [r]: 1967 drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, which deals with the controversial subject of interracial marriage. ^[e]
• Hamlet [r]: Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 - 1601, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. ^[e]
• Joan of Arc [r]: A French peasant girl (ca. 1412 – 1431) who led her nation's armies during the Hundred Years' War and became a national heroine and saint. ^[e]
• Joseph Campbell [r]: Teacher, popular lecturer, and author, editor and translator of many books on mythology. ^[e]
• Oliver Cromwell [r]: (1599-1658) English soldier, statesman, and leader of the Puritan revolution, nicknamed "Old Ironsides". ^[e]
• Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. ^[e]
• Poseidon (god) [r]: Greek god of the sea. ^[e]
• Positivist calendar [r]: Alternative calendar proposed by Auguste Comte in 1849, with each day and month celebrating a different person. ^[e]