{"id":40573,"date":"2022-10-03T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40573"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T22:17:46","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-what-makes-a-fantasy-hero-8-clever-or-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/10\/03\/on-supernatural-underground-now-what-makes-a-fantasy-hero-8-clever-or-clueless\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now, “What Makes a Fantasy Hero?” #8: Clever — or Clueless?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, how can it be that time again — but it is! So on Saturday October 1, I posted Instalment\u00a0 No. 8 in the “What Makes A Hero?”<\/a> in Fantasy series, honing in on whether a hero needs to be clever, or can get away with being clueless…<\/p>\n

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And I am, as you can see, managing to keep that “C” theme going as well. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

“When it comes to the importance of cleverness in a hero’s make-up, The Iliad provides two … models \u2013 the first is the wily Odysseus, who is called upon whenever military initiatives are at a standstill. The second is the immensely strong Ajax, who while always willing to hurl himself at the enemy, is definitely not the sharpest knife in the heroic drawer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

…”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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All sorts & conditions of hero…<\/p><\/div>\n

To find out more, click on:<\/p>\n

What Makes A Fantasy Hero? — Clever vs Clueless<\/a><\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, have a good week and month — until next time, which will of course, fall just after Halloween.<\/p>\n

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I know, how can it be that time again — but it is! So on Saturday October 1, I posted Instalment\u00a0 No. 8 in the “What Makes A Hero?” in Fantasy series, honing in on whether a hero needs to be clever, or can get away with being clueless… And I am, as you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40576,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions\/40576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}