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～ (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
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～ Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
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～ a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
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～ (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
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～ the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
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～ a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"
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～ someone who fights for a cause
herod
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～ king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
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～ the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)
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～ of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings"
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～ having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers"
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～ relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity; "heroic legends"; "the heroic age"
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～ very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"
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～ showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"
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～ a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
heroic couplet
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～ a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
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～ having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers"