Literary critic Northrop Frye once observed that in our primitive days, our literary heroes were -- well, nearly gods, and as civilization advanced, they came down the mountain of the gods, so to speak, and became more human, more flawed, less heroic.
Laut dem Literaturkritiker Northrop Frye waren die literarischen Helden der Urzeit -- naja, fast Götter. Im Laufe der Zivilisation stiegen sie von ihrem Olymp herab und wurden menschlicher, weniger perfekt, weniger heldenhaft.