The Epic Hero Edward Pillar and Austin Sarat have assembled

and Austin Sarat have assembled a stellar group of contributors who try to make sense of justice gone wrong and to answer urgent questions

A trove of footnotes and endnotes elaborates on virtually every reference made by Beauvoir

He is dogged by sexual obsessions and grief over World War I

In a time when attention spans are shortening and church participation is declining

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The Epic Hero Edward Pillar and Austin Sarat have assembledFrom Odysseus to Aeneas, from Beowulf to King Arthur, from the Mah'bh'rata to the Ossetian ''Nart'' tales, epic heroes and their stories have symbolized the power of the human imagination. Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed typology of the hero in Western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character, deeds,