The Hero's Quest By: Ally Banks, Tatum Jelleberg, and Effy Widdifield Introduction: In myths and legends across the world, a universal story structure can be seen time and time again. While the characters and details of their journey will be unique to each story, the overarching narrative that a Hero's Quest framing provides is a way for the main character to achieve a daunting goal while building experience and proving their strength along the way. The details of each quest and elements of the myths that endure over time are a product of their cultures, not only of when the myth was created but when variations are made to the myth.  This blog post was created as an assignment for ENGL 211 Ancient Literature with the purpose of identifying different versions of one myth/mythological character in different cultures and times. Our group used the character type of Hercules to find other heroes with lengthy and impressive reputations from ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century America...