Following a precarious chronology in our catalogue, we go from mythology to legends, from gods to heroes. I call this chronology precarious as we cannot necessarily be certain that the stories of the gods analysed in the previous post are older than the stories that will be analysed here; add to this, some of these heroic stories involve the gods to such a degree, they can be construed as mythological in nature themselves.It is useful for the sake of understanding to imagine the concept of th...