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mother is a virgin and he's reputed to be the son of a god. He loses favor and is driven from his kingdom to a sorrowful death. These are familiar themes, In The Hero, author Lord Raglan contends that such heroic figures from myth and legend are invested with a common pattern that fulfills the human desire for idealization. He goes on to outline twenty-two typical motifs from heroic tales and illustrates his theory with events from the lives of such characters as Oedipus, legendary igures o the Norse sagas, champions of the Trojan War, King Arthur, and Robin Hood.