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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 3
Left: Half-God, Half-Mortal Perseus with the head of the gorgon Medusa, by Benvenuto Cellini, in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence. Right: The birth of Half-God, Half-Mortal Helen of Troy; Apulian Krater; 357/50 BCE.
Demigods are the children of a deity with a human, and these Half-Gods begin a process of the humanization of the mythic archetype. Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, for example, both refer to divine genealogies but also traditions concerning Half-Human/Half-Divine beings. As these progenies of Gods and humans appear, the more the stories will eventually revolve around human characters and concerns. The Gods are slowly receding into the background and becoming omniscient stage-managers. Powerful stage-managers, however, consider:
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