[thetribe]

Does anyone have an interest in this? Who are some of the gods/goddesses/heroes that you find most interesting? What myths intrigue you?

[Stardust]

Loved in in High School studies, but that was a long time ago.

Achilles was my favorite and the story of Troy. But give me Zeus in a fight with anybody!

[alfus21]

Favorites...

Hades - Ruler of the underworld and the dead. Brother of Zeus. Had a helmet which rendered its wearer invisible.

Apollo - Son of Zeus. Master musician, archer god, healer, god of light, god of truth, sun god. A busy god who likes the laurel tree, dolphins, and crows.

Ares - God of War

[thetribe]

I'm really glad some other people have some knowledge in it. I ended up having to pick a summer class and took this one to finish up my degree. Right now I'm doing a paper on how 3 different heroes fit into Lord Raglan's pattern of a hero. It is interesting to apply it to other historical and biblical characters.

[Stardust]

Let your favorite hero take the Lord Raglan Challenge!

The Scale
The hero's mother is a royal virgin. His father is a king and often a near relative of the mother, but the circumstances of his conception are unusual, and he is also reputed to be the son of a god at birth an attempt is made, usually by his father or maternal grandfather, to kill him, but He is spirited away, and reared by foster-parents in a far country.

We are told nothing of his childhood, but
on reaching manhood he returns or goes to his future kingdom. After a victory over the king and or giant, dragon, or wild beast he marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor and becomes king.

For a time he reigns uneventfully and
prescribes laws but later loses favor with the gods and or his people and is driven from from the throne and the city after which He meets with a mysterious death
often at the top of a hill.

His children, if any, do not succeed him.
His body is not buried, but nevertheless
he has one or more holy sepulchres.

[thetribe]

If you break it down into points and ask yourself the question about historical people, it gets pretty wild. It is really unusual for a historical figure to score above a 6 on it. It was meant towards mythical characters but biblical characters seem to store high on it. Lord Raglan wanted to compare Jesus to the other heroes of Roman mythology and whatnot in his book and his publishers wouldn't go for it. If you do it on your own, he does score really high though. Supposedly, the higher you score the more unrealistic you are as it was meant to tell correlation between fictional characters.

[Stardust]

Oedipus scores 21
Theseus scores 20
Moses scores 20
King Arthur scores 19
Jesus of Nazareth scores 19
Dionysus scores 19
Romulus scores 18
Perseus scores 18
Hercules scores 17
Llew Llaw Gyffes scores 17
Bellerophon scores 16
Gilgamesh scores 15
Jason scores 15
Mwindo scores 14
Robin Hood scores 13
Pelops scores 13
James T. Kirk scores 13
Sigurd scores 11.

[thetribe]

Some have went as far as trying Harry Potter, JFK, and others. It gets really interesting.