Sth. about heroism

It seems that the concepts of “hero” or “heroism” have been existing in all cultures, maybe will vary to appear; but the word itself has probably appeared for the first time in ancient Greece-- where it was combined in the name of one of the greatest heroes of all times: Heracles.

According to Robert Graves, an authority on Greek culture, the name is originated from that of the great goddess Hera and it means “Hera’s Glory.” Heracles, then, lived, acted and died in the name and for the glory of that goddess.

The character, Heracles, actually arose in the land of Greece among its pre-Greek inhabitants, the Pelasgians. And many other mythological heroes around the world were compared to Heracles. In Egypt, there are some heroes as Sum, who was supposed to have lived there ten thousand years before the Trojan wars -- pushing the hero’s historical existence back into prehistory, i.e. into pre-writing times.