Hermes, Greek god, son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia; often identified with the Roman Mercury and with Casmilus or Cadmilus, one of the Cabeiri. His name is probably derived from herma (see herm), the Greek word for a heap of stones, such as was used in the country to indicate boundaries or as a

Hermes, binary asteroid whose eccentric orbit takes it near Earth. It was discovered on October 28, 1937, by German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth when it approached within about 742,000 km (461,000 miles) of Earth, about twice the distance of the Moon; because of its fast motion across the sky,

Italian literature: Literary trends before World War I: …reviews such as Leonardo (1903), Hermes (1904), La Voce (1908), and Lacerba (1913), founded and edited by relatively small literary coteries. The two main literary trends were Crepuscolarismo (the Twilight School), which, in reaction to the high-flown rhetoric of D’Annunzio, favoured a colloquial style to express dissatisfaction with the present…

contrapposto: …the completely relaxed 4th-century “Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus” by Praxiteles. The rhythmic ease of the contrapposto pose vastly enlarged the expressive possibilities of figure sculpture.

Hermes Trismegistus, the Greek name applied to the Egyptian god Thoth as the reputed author or source of the Hermetic writings, works of revelation on occult subjects and theology. Thoth was the scribe of the gods, the inventor of writing, and the patron of all the arts dependent on writing,

Georg Hermes was a German Roman Catholic theologian, originator of the theological system called Hermesianism, which attempted to demonstrate the rational necessity of Christianity. His theology was deeply influenced by the philosophical works of Immanuel Kant and J.G. Fichte. Educated at the

Hermesianax was a Greek elegiac poet from Colophon in Ionia, one of the first of the erudite and sophisticated exponents of Alexandrian poetry. His chief work was an elegiac poem in three books, dedicated to and named for his mistress Leontion. Some 98 lines of the poem were preserved by Athenaeus.

Hermesianax was a Greek elegiac poet from Colophon in Ionia, one of the first of the erudite and sophisticated exponents of Alexandrian poetry. His chief work was an elegiac poem in three books, dedicated to and named for his mistress Leontion. Some 98 lines of the poem were preserved by Athenaeus.

Hermetic writings, works of revelation on occult, theological, and philosophical subjects ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth (Greek Hermes Trismegistos [Hermes the Thrice-Greatest]), who was believed to be the inventor of writing and the patron of all the arts dependent on writing. The collection,

Hermetic writings, works of revelation on occult, theological, and philosophical subjects ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth (Greek Hermes Trismegistos [Hermes the Thrice-Greatest]), who was believed to be the inventor of writing and the patron of all the arts dependent on writing. The collection,

Hermeticism, modernist poetic movement originating in Italy in the early 20th century, whose works were characterized by unorthodox structure, illogical sequences, and highly subjective language. Although it influenced a wide circle of poets, even outside Italy, it remained inaccessible to the

Hermetic writings: …into two main classes: “popular” Hermetism, which deals with astrology and the other occult sciences; and “learned” Hermetism, which is concerned with theology and philosophy. Both seem to have arisen in the complex Greco-Egyptian culture of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.

industrial glass: Glass seals: Hermeticity is often a desired result in glass sealing. A prime example of hermetic seals are in lightbulbs, in which metal conducting wires are sealed through glass in order to maintain an inert atmosphere inside the lamp envelope. Much of modern microelectronics involving thick-film technology…

Hermetic writings: …into two main classes: “popular” Hermetism, which deals with astrology and the other occult sciences; and “learned” Hermetism, which is concerned with theology and philosophy. Both seem to have arisen in the complex Greco-Egyptian culture of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Meanwhile, two lovers, Hermia and Lysander, seek refuge in the forest near Athens when Hermia’s father demands that she marry Demetrius. Hoping to win Demetrius’s favour, Helena tells him their whereabouts and follows him to the forest, where he goes in search of Hermia. The forest is also…

Antiochus III the Great: …retained from the previous administration Hermias as chief minister, Achaeus as governor of Asia Minor, and Molon and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces, Media and Persis. In the following year, when Molon rebelled and assumed the title of king, Antiochus abandoned a campaign against Egypt for…

Aernout Drost: Drost’s first novel, Hermingard van de Eikenterpen (1832; “Hermingard of the Oak Burial Mounds”), portraying the conversion of a Germanic woman to Christianity in 4th-century Holland, gave him scope for the development of his Romantic ideals and religious concepts. Drost’s career was short; he died at the age…

Germanic peoples: …into three groups—the Ingaevones, the Herminones, and the Istaevones—but the basis for this grouping is unknown. Tacitus records a variant form of the genealogy according to which Mannus had a larger number of sons, who were regarded as the ancestors of the Suebi, the Vandals, and others. At any rate,…

The Winter’s Tale: …the courtesy between his wife, Hermione, and Polixenes as a sign of Hermione’s adultery with him. In a fit of jealousy, he attempts to have Polixenes killed, but Polixenes escapes with Camillo, Leontes’ faithful counselor, whom Leontes has sent to kill him. The pregnant Hermione is then publicly humiliated and…

hermit, any of several hummingbird species of the genus Phaethornis. See

hermit, one who retires from society, primarily for religious reasons, and lives in solitude. In Christianity the word (from Greek erēmitēs, “living in the desert”) is used interchangeably with anchorite, although the two were originally distinguished on the basis of location: an anchorite selected

hermit crab, any crab of the families Paguridae and Coenobitidae (order Decapoda of the class Crustacea). These crabs use empty snail shells (e.g., whelk or periwinkle) or other hollow objects as a shelter for partial containment and protection of the body. Their bodies lack a hard protected

Augustinian:

ibis: The hermit ibis (Geronticus eremita), an endangered species, inhabits northern Africa and the Middle East. Its bill and the bare skin on its head are reddish. Breeding colonies once existed in central and southern Europe, Syria, and Algeria but are now known only in Turkey and…

Jerzy Kosinski: Play (1979), Pinball (1982), and The Hermit of 69th Street (1988).

San Miguel: …the Southern Rocky Mountains, with Hermit Peak (10,263 feet [3,128 metres]) and Elk Mountain (11,661 feet [3,554 metres]) its highest summits. The county’s southwestern portion, including the Glorieta Mesa, is in the Basin and Range Province. From west to east the land descends, first across the Las Vegas Plateau, which…

nightingale thrush: An example is the hermit thrush (C. guttatus), 18 cm (7 inches) long, a famous singer that is found in Canadian and U.S. coniferous woodlands. Common in eastern broadleaf forests of the United States is a spotted, rusty-headed form, the wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina), 20 cm (8 inches) long.…

Hermitage, art museum in St. Petersburg founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great as a court museum. It adjoined the Winter Palace and served as a private gallery for the art amassed by the empress. Under Nicholas I the Hermitage was reconstructed (1840–52), and it was opened to the public in 1852.

Hermitage: …at home and abroad, the Hermitage Amsterdam, opened in the Netherlands in June 2009. Located on the Amstel River in the centre of Amsterdam, it is part of a larger effort to showcase the museum’s treasures in exhibits around the world.

Murcia: In the Hermitage of Jesus (Ermita de Jesús) are the majority of the Passion sculptures of Francisco Salzillo, which attract many visitors during Holy Week. The University of Murcia was founded in 1915.

Charles Hermite was a French mathematician whose work in the theory of functions includes the application of elliptic functions to provide the first solution to the general equation of the fifth degree, the quintic equation. Although Hermite had proved himself a creative mathematician at the age of

Tristan l’Hermite was a dramatist and poet, one of the creators of French classical drama. Long overshadowed by his contemporary Pierre Corneille, he was rediscovered in the late 19th century and continues to excite scholarly and critical interest. At the age of 11, Tristan was attached as page to

Hermocrates was a leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse, Sicily; he played an important role in saving the city from conquest by the Athenians between 415 and 413 bc. In 424, during the Peloponnesian War (431–404) between Athens and Sparta, Hermocrates persuaded the cities of Sicily to agree

fireworm: The body of H. carunculata, found in the coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea, is covered with fine, white, brittle bristles that break if touched; they easily become imbedded in human skin and produce a substance that is highly irritating.

Western architecture: Hellenistic period: The 3rd-century architect Hermogenes of Priene codified the Ionic order in his books, and his buildings popularized new features in plan, notably the broad flanking colonnades (“pseudo-dipteral”), where the earlier Ionic temples of eastern Greece had set ranks of columns. For the first time the Corinthian order was…

Mount Hermon, snowcapped ridge on the Lebanon-Syria border west of Damascus. It rises to 9,232 feet (2,814 meters) and is the highest point on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is sometimes considered the southernmost extension of the Anti-Lebanon range. At its foot rise the two major

Armant, ancient town in Upper Egypt, near Thebes on the west bank of the Nile River. It was the seat of a sun cult and was a crowning place of kings. The war god Mont was worshiped there in hawk-headed human form and also in his epiphany, the bull Buchis. Armant was probably the original home of

Hermopolis Magna, ancient town of Upper Egypt, located on the Nile River south of Al-Minyā in Al-Minyā muḥāfaẓah (governorate). It was known as Khmunu (“City of the Eight”) and was the capital of the Hare nome (province), the 15th nome of Upper Egypt. The great deity worshiped there was Thoth, god

Damanhūr, city, capital of Al-Buḥayrah muḥāfaẓah (governorate) in the western Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. Its name is derived from the ancient Egyptian Timinhor (“City of Horus”) and has historically applied to several centres in Egypt, mostly in the delta. The capital of a Ptolemaic nome,

Hermosillo, city, capital of Sonora estado (state), northwestern Mexico. It is situated in the west-central part of the state at an elevation of about 700 feet (210 metres) near the confluence of the Sonora and San Miguel rivers (which both descend from the western flank of the Sierra Madre

Hermoúpolis, chief port of the island of Syros (part of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea), South Aegean (Modern Greek: Nótio Aigaío) periféreia (region), southeastern Greece. The seat of both a Greek Orthodox and a Roman Catholic archbishopric, it was founded in 1821 at the beginning of the War

novel: Proletarian: …Williams (1794) and Robert Bage’s Hermsprong (1796), although, like Hard Times, sympathetic to the lot of the oppressed worker, are more concerned with the imposition of reform from above than with revolution from within, and the proletarian novel is essentially an intended device of revolution. The Russian Maxim Gorky, with…

Germany: Ancient history: … that in ad 59 the Hermunduri, in fulfillment of their vows, sacrificed defeated Chatti to one of these gods. This elite was also the basis of political organization. The Germanic peoples comprised numerous tribes that were also united in leagues centerd on the worship of particular cults. These cults were…

Hernád River, river in Hungary and Slovakia that rises on the northern slope of the Low Tatra (Nízké Tatry) mountains in Slovakia and flows east and south to join the Sajo, a tributary of the Tisza, after a course of 165 miles (265

Hernando Arias de Saavedra was a Spanish-American explorer, soldier, and lieutenant governor (1591–93) and governor (1602–09, 1614–18) of the Spanish district of Río de la Plata in South America. Hernandarias was known for his protection of the Indian population, for establishment of closer ties

Rafael Hernández Colón was a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, who served as governor of Puerto Rico (1973–77; 1985–93). Hernández Colón was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (1956) and the University of Puerto Rico Law School (1959). He became a protégé of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín and

Xavi is a Spanish football (soccer) player and manager who was widely regarded as one of the best midfielders in the world in the early 21st century. At age 11 Xavi joined the youth squad of FC Barcelona, a first-division football club near his hometown. He advanced through the club’s various

Yucatán Peninsula: History: …began with the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a Spanish adventurer from Cuba, who discovered the east coast of the Yucatán in February 1517 while on a slave-hunting expedition. In 1518 Juan de Grijalva followed the same route. In 1519 a third expedition, under the conquistador Hernán Cortés, clashed…

Ana Castillo is an American poet and author whose work explores themes of race, sexuality, and gender, especially as they relate to issues of power. Castillo studied art education at Northeastern Illinois University (B.A., 1975), where she became involved in Hispanic American artistic, activist,

El Salvador: Military dictatorships: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez as president in December 1931 and initiated a succession of military governments that controlled the country through 1979.

United States: Latino and Native American activism: In 1954, in Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the conviction of an agricultural laborer, Pete Hernandez, for murder should be overturned because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in both the jury that indicted him and the jury that convicted him. In…

United States: Latino and Native American activism: In 1954, in Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the conviction of an agricultural laborer, Pete Hernandez, for murder should be overturned because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in both the jury that indicted him and the jury that convicted him. In…

Felisberto Hernández was one of the most original Latin American short-story writers. Hernández is known for his bizarre tales of quietly deranged individuals who inject their obsessions into everyday life. Hernández became a kind of cult figure not only because of his writing but also because of

Seattle Mariners: …by its longtime pitching ace Felix Hernandez and new free-agent second baseman Robinson Cano—won 87 games and finished one game outside of playoff qualification. Nevertheless, the team’s postseason drought extended to a major-league worst of 16 seasons in 2017. After another unexpected playoff chase in 2018 with 89 wins, the…

Gregorio Hernández was a Spanish sculptor whose works are among the finest examples of polychromed wood sculpture created during the Baroque period. His images are characterized by their emotional intensity, spiritual expressiveness, and sense of dramatic gravity, as well as by their illusionistic

José Hernández was an Argentine poet, best known for his depiction of the gauchos. At the age of 14, because of illness, he left Buenos Aires to live in the pampas, where he learned the ways of the gauchos. From 1853 to 1868 he took part in the provinces’ political struggle with Buenos Aires. After

Honduras: The 21st century: In late November 2013 Juan Orlando Hernández of the National Party was declared the winner of the presidential election held on November 24. He captured more than 36 percent of the vote, while about 29 percent was for the second-place finisher, Xiomara Castro, the candidate of the Freedom and…

Keith Hernandez is an American professional baseball player who earned 11 consecutive Gold Glove awards (1978–88) during his 17 seasons in Major League Baseball. He played on two World Series championship teams (1982, 1986) and appeared in five All-Star Games (1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987).

Keith Hernandez is an American professional baseball player who earned 11 consecutive Gold Glove awards (1978–88) during his 17 seasons in Major League Baseball. He played on two World Series championship teams (1982, 1986) and appeared in five All-Star Games (1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987).

Laurie Hernandez is an American gymnast who participated in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Hernandez and her teammates Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and Madison Kocian, dubbed the “Final Five,” won the women’s artistic gymnastics team gold medal. Hernandez also captured an

Laurie Hernandez is an American gymnast who participated in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Hernandez and her teammates Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and Madison Kocian, dubbed the “Final Five,” won the women’s artistic gymnastics team gold medal. Hernandez also captured an

Miami Marlins: …by the play of pitcher Livan Hernandez, outfielder Gary Sheffield, second baseman Luis Castillo, and catcher Charles Johnson, Florida defeated the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves in the NL playoffs to earn a berth in the World Series in the team’s fifth year of existence. The Marlins then…

Miguel Hernández was a Spanish poet and dramatist who combined traditional lyric forms with 20th-century subjectivity. A goatherd in his youth, Hernández joined the Spanish Communist Party in 1936 and fought in the Civil War (1936–39). Condemned to death by the Nationalists after the war, his

Orlando Hernández is a Cuban baseball pitcher who amassed a won-lost record of 129–47, the best winning percentage in the history of the Cuban League. After defecting from Cuba in 1997, he pitched in the major leagues, where he gained a reputation as a “big game” pitcher, posting a 9–3 record and a

Bruno Mars is an American singer and songwriter known for both his catchy pop music—which often features upbeat lyrics, blends different genres, and has a retro quality—and his energetic live performances. He is the son of Pete (“Dr. Doo-Wop”) Hernandez, a Latin percussionist of Puerto Rican

Gustavo Petro: The 2022 Colombian presidential election: Populist millionaire Rodolfo Hernández finished second with 28 percent. Because neither candidate had reached the 50 percent level needed to preclude a runoff, a rematch was set for June. Petro stood to be the first leftist ever elected as Colombia’s president. That two distinctly nontraditional candidates were…

Laurales: Distribution and abundance: The largest genus, Hernandia (22 species), is distributed in Central and South America, the West Indies, West Africa, Indo-Malaysia (a region comprising India, South China, and Southeast Asia), and the Pacific Islands. Atherospermataceae includes 6 or 7 genera and 16 species, which are native to Australia, New Guinea,…

Laurales: Other families: Hernandiaceae shares a number of features with Lauraceae, including alternate leaves (which are sometimes lobed or palmately compound) and a single carpel per flower. Members of the family also have inaperturate pollen and develop stamens with valvular dehiscence and nectariferous appendages. Hernandiaceae differ in having…

Hernani, poetic tragedy in five acts by French author Victor Hugo, first performed and published in 1830. Because it renounced the unities of time and place, Hernani was in the vanguard of the new, more naturalistic Romantic drama. The story is set in 16th-century Spain and extols the Romantic hero

Owen Josephus Roberts: …famous decision that he wrote, Herndon v. Lowry (1937), Roberts set aside the conviction of an African American communist organizer convicted under a law that provided no clear standard of guilt. In the area of economic and commerce law, Roberts’s opinion in Nebbia v. New York (1934) upheld the price-setting…

Ellen Arthur was the wife of Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States. She never served as first lady because she died of pneumonia before her husband assumed office. The president’s sister, Mary Arthur McElroy, acted as White House hostess. Ellen Lewis Herndon was the daughter of

Abraham Lincoln: Prairie lawyer: …and finally, from 1844, of William H. Herndon. Nearly 10 years younger than Lincoln, Herndon was more widely read, more emotional at the bar, and generally more extreme in his views. Yet this partnership seems to have been as nearly perfect as such human arrangements ever are. Lincoln and Herndon…

Amazon River: Early European exploration: , William Lewis Herndon published the report that he and Lardner Gibbon—both lieutenants in the U.S. Navy—had made to Congress under the title of Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.

Herne, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies at the junction of the Rhine-Herne and the Dortmund-Ems canals, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Dortmund, in the industrial Ruhr district. Known as Haranni in the 10th century, it remained a small village until the discovery

Herne Bay, town, Canterbury city (local authority), on the north (Thames estuary) coast of the administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. The town grew rapidly after the railway linked it with London in 1833. Reculver, 3 miles (5 km) east, is the site of the Roman station

Herne The Hunter, phantom hunter who haunts Windsor Great Park, impersonated by Falstaff in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Though Herne may have been an actual keeper of the forest, he is probably a local manifestation of the Wild Huntsman myth known throughout the world. The usual story

William Butler Yeats: …his last plays, he completed The Herne’s Egg, his most raucous work, in 1938. Yeats’s last two verse collections, New Poems and Last Poems and Two Plays, appeared in 1938 and 1939 respectively. In these books many of his previous themes are gathered up and rehandled, with an immense technical…

James A. Herne was an American playwright who helped bridge the gap between 19th-century melodrama and the 20th-century drama of ideas. After several years as a traveling actor, Herne scored an impressive success with his first play, Hearts of Oak (1879), written with the young David Belasco.

hernia, protrusion of an organ or tissue from its normal cavity. The protrusion may extend outside the body or between cavities within the body, as when loops of intestine escape from the abdominal cavity into the chest through a defect in the diaphragm, the muscular partition between the two

herniated disk, displacement of part of the rubbery centre, or nucleus, of a cartilaginous disk from between the vertebrae so that it presses against the spinal cord. Pain occurs in the arms if the protrusion occurs at the level of the neck (between the fifth and sixth or sixth and seventh cervical

Hernici, ancient people of Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine Lake (modern Fucino) and the Trerus (modern Sacco) River, bounded by the Volsci on the south and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north. In 486 bc they were still strong enough to conclude a treaty with the Romans

Herning, city, west central Jutland, Denmark. Large-scale reclamation of surrounding heaths stimulated its growth from a rural village in the 1870s to a commercial city. A road and rail junction, its manufactures include textiles and machinery. Local lignite deposits were worked extensively during

hero, in literature, broadly, the main character in a literary work; the term is also used in a specialized sense for any figure celebrated in the ancient legends of a people or in such early heroic epics as Gilgamesh, the Iliad, Beowulf, or La Chanson de Roland. These legendary heroes belong to a

Much Ado About Nothing: …between the conventional Claudio and Hero, who have the usual expectations of each other, and Beatrice and Benedick, who are highly skeptical of romance and courtship and, seemingly, each other. Claudio is deceived by the jealous Don John into believing that Hero is prepared to abandon him for Claudio’s friend…

Heron of Alexandria was a Greek geometer and inventor whose writings preserved for posterity a knowledge of the mathematics and engineering of Babylonia, ancient Egypt, and the Greco-Roman world. Heron’s most important geometric work, Metrica, was lost until 1896. It is a compendium, in three

Zhang Yimou: Yingxiong (2002; Hero) was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film, and it became the highest-grossing film in China. His subsequent action films included Shimian mai fu (2004; House of Flying Daggers) and Man cheng jin dai huangjinjia (2006; Curse of the Golden Flower). Zhang shifted…

A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich, novel for young adults by Alice Childress, published in 1973. The work is presented in 23 short narratives and tells the story of an arrogant Black teenager whose fragmented domestic life and addiction to heroin lead him into delinquency. In 1977 the novel was

Ralph Nelson: …Tyson and Paul Winfield, in A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich (1978), an adaptation of Alice Childress’s novel about a troubled teen in Los Angeles. His last two films were made-for-television productions: Christmas Lilies of the Field, with Billy Dee Williams in the Poitier role, and You Can’t Go…

Hero and Leander, two lovers celebrated in Greek legend. Hero, virgin priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos, was seen at a festival by Leander of Abydos; they fell in love, and he swam the Hellespont at night to visit her, guided by a light from her tower. One stormy night the light was extinguished,

Christopher Marlowe: Works. of Christopher Marlowe: …nondramatic work includes the poem Hero and Leander. This work was incomplete at his death and was extended by George Chapman: the joint work of the two poets was published in 1598.

Heron of Alexandria was a Greek geometer and inventor whose writings preserved for posterity a knowledge of the mathematics and engineering of Babylonia, ancient Egypt, and the Greco-Roman world. Heron’s most important geometric work, Metrica, was lost until 1896. It is a compendium, in three

Alan Paton: The Hero of Currie Road (2008) collected his short fiction. The Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives at the University of KwaZulu-Natal houses his papers as well as a major collection of apartheid-related manuscripts.

Vasco Pratolini: …A Hero of Today, or, A Hero of Our Time) attacks fascism.

A Hero of Our Time, novel by Mikhail Lermontov, published in Russian in 1840 as Geroy nashego vremeni. Its psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned 19th-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and fragmented narrative structure influenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and

Vasco Pratolini: …A Hero of Today, or, A Hero of Our Time) attacks fascism.

Sir Isaac Brock was a British soldier and administrator in Canada, popularly known as the “Hero of Upper Canada” during the War of 1812 against the United States. Brock entered the British army as an ensign in 1785. He was made lieutenant colonel of the 49th Regiment in 1797, and in 1802 he was

hoagie, submarine sandwich containing Italian meats, cheeses, and other fillings and condiments. The name likely comes from the Philadelphia area where, during World War I, Italian immigrants who worked at the Hog Island shipyard began making sandwiches; they were originally called “hoggies” before

Joseph Campbell: Works: …of Zimmer, Campbell was writing The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), which remains his best-known work. In an approach that contrasted with that of subsequent books, Campbell tied the meaning of myth to its plot and claimed to have deciphered the common plot of all hero myths. He understood…

miracle: Holy persons: …to distinguish between saints and hero gods, because great people of renowned virtue can be deified and venerated and even receive officially approved state cults. Miracles occur as a matter of course at their tombs and relics. In certain Islamic traditions as well as in Christian belief, the occurrence of…

Richard Strauss: Life: …Quixote and Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life). In 1904 he and Pauline, who was the foremost exponent of his songs, toured the United States, where in New York City he conducted the first performance of his Symphonia Domestica (Domestic Symphony). The following year, in Dresden, he enjoyed his first…