Odysseus, Washington, Napoleon and Heroes in an Unheroic Age

L to R: Ditlev Blunck, ‘Odysseus on the Island of Calypso’; Édouard Detaille, ‘Napoleon in 1806’; George Washington Lansdowne portrait (1796) by Gilbert Stuart

COMMENTARY: It is not quite true that we live in a post-heroic age but certainly true that our cynical modern era has real issues with heroism, whether sacred or profane.

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