[lit-ideas] I May Not Be a Football Hero (But I’m a Bear in a Lady’s Boudoir)
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I wish people who use 'hero' concentrated on Greek collocations. Here below
the Liddell/Scott. Into the bargain, OED note for etym. and definition (which
you can ignore, definition), but collocations in earliest Greek attestations
should give us a clue why the title song we find _amusing_.
[Ultimately ad. L. hr-s, pl. hr-s, a. Gr. -, pl. -. In early use the L. or
Gr. singular hrs and pl. hr-s appear unchanged (cf. F. héros sing. from 14th
c.); beside them is also found a sing. hero-ë like obs. F. heroë (Cotgr.), It.
eroe, Sp. heroe; this became later he-roe, and finally hero. The pl. heroes
is now disyllabic.]
1. Antiq. A name given (as in Homer) to men of superhuman strength,
courage, or ability, favoured by the gods; at a later time regarded as
intermediate between gods and men, and immortal.
The later notion included men of renown supposed to be deified on account of
great and noble deeds, for which they were also venerated generally or
locally; also demigods, said to be the offspring of a god or goddess and a
human
being; the two classes being to a great extent coincident.
verse of heroes, the hexameter.
hêrôs , ho (also hê in signf. 111), gen. hêrôos (hêrôs codd. in Od.6.303,
fort. leg. hêrô^os), IG22.1641.6 (iv B.C.), etc.; also
A. hêrô D.19.249 , IG2.1191 (iii B.C.), Paus.10.4.10: dat. hêrôï, mostly in
form hêrôi Il.7.453 , Od.8.483, Pl.Com.174.18, Orac. ap. D.43.66: acc. hêrôa
Pl.Lg.738d , IG3.810 (hêrô^a Epigr.Gr.774 (Priene)); usu. in form hêrô
IG2.1058.25 (iv B.C.), Pl.R.391d, A.R.2.766, etc., also hêrôn Hdt.1.167
:--Plur.,
nom. hêrôes (ô^ Pi.P.4.58), rarely contr. hêrôs, as in Ar.Fr.304: dat. hêrôsin
A.Fr.55 , Ar.Av.1485; hêrônessi Sophr.154 : acc. hêrôas (ô^ Pi.P.1.53),
rarely hêrôs, as in A.Ag.516, Luc.Dem.Enc.4:--hero, hêrôes Danaoi, Achaioi,
Il.2.110,19.34; stichas andrôn hêrôôn Od.1.101 ; hêrôôn agoras, of the
Phaeacians,
7.44; hêrôi Dêmodokôi 8.483 ; hoi hêgemones tôn archaiôn monoi êsan hêrôes,
hoi de laoi anthrôpoi Arist.Pr. 932b18 , but cf. Il. cc.
2. the Fourth Age of men, between daimones and anthrôpoi, Hes.Op.172, cf.
Pl.Cra.398c.
3. heroes, as objects of worship, hê. antitheoi Pi.P.1.53 ,4.58; hê. theos,
of Heracles, Id.N.3.22; but [Hêrakleï] tôi men hôs Olumpiôi thuousi, tôi de
heterôi hôs hêrôi enagizousi Hdt.2.44 ; Sisuphos hê. Thgn.711; twice in A.,
Ag.516, Fr.55; once in E., Fr.446(lyr.); oute theous outh' hêrôas
aischuntheisa
Antipho 1.27 ; esp. of local deities, founders of cities, patrons of tribes,
etc., Hdt.1.168, Th.4.87, Pl.Lg.l.c., Arist.Pol.1332b18, etc.; at Athens,
hê. epônumoi heroes after whom the phulai were named, Paus.1.5.1,2, cf.
Hdt.5.66; of historical persons to whom divine honours were paid, as Brasidas
at
Amphipolis, Th.5.11, cf. Hdt.5.114,7.117: hence,= Lat. divus, hêrôa apedeixate
[ton Augouston] D.C.56.41; also,= Lares, D.H.4.14; ho kat' oikian hê.,= Lar
familiaris, ib.2.
II. later,= makaritês, deceased, Alciphr.3.37, Hld.7.13: pl.,
PMag.Par.1.1390: freq. in Inscrr., hêrôs chrêste, chaire IG9(2).806 , cf.
14.223, etc.;
even of women, ib.9(2).961 (Larissa), al.; theois hêrôsi,= Dis Manibus,
ib.14.1795 (Rome), etc.; hubrisantas tous hêrôas tôn teknôn hêmôn SIG1243.23
(Acraeph.).
III. hê. poikilos, = stigmatias, Hsch., Phot.
IV. bous hê., = hêgemôn, IG22.1126.32.
V. v. Hêrôn.
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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