Heroes
"Beginning beneath the walls of Troy, ending in 1930s Europe when the cult of the hero was turning politically lethal, this is a book about mortality and dictatorship, about money and sorcery, about seduction and mass-hysteria. Lucy Hughes-Hallett explores the ancient but still politically potent phenomenon of hero-worship through the careers of eight extraordinary men." "Heroes is a sequence of remarkable stories. Each of them sheds a different and startling light on the all-but-universal craving for an invincible champion, and each of them features a character so glamorous or intimidating his contemporaries considered him either a devil or a god."--Jacket
Biographies
xii, 604 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
9781857026801, 1857026802
224118436
Achilles
Alcibiades
Cato
El Cid
Francis Drake
Wallenstein
Garibaldi
Odysseus
Cover subtitle, "Saviours, traitors and supermen."