June on Stranger Worlds

Meet the Antiheroes

Dear friends,

Why did the antihero become so popular? If the tales we tell carry moral lessons for us, what is the purpose of creating these dark mirror images of the heroic protagonist…? Join me in a journey across four millennia of storytelling from the ancient heroes of Mesopotamia and Greece, through Milton’s Lucifier and Paradise Lost, on to Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo and the many other faces of the Byronic Hero, before finally arriving at Moorcock’s most popular (and most misunderstood!) Eternal Champion, Elric of Melniboné.

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Chris.

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