Ancient and Heroic

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Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

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Heroic and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Heroic" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Heroic adjective - Feeling or displaying no fear by temperament.

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Ancient and heroic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Heroic".

Nearby Words: hero, heroism, heroically

It should be also be noted that in ancient Greece, "heroic" did not necessarily mean nice, so many Greek heroes were bastards who were also bastards.

Source: Heroic Bastard
Whether the bronze-age heroes were meant to be unironically heroic or whether modern audiences just missing the sarcasm of ancient Greek poetry is still sort of in question.

Source: Designated Hero / Literature
In Digimon Xros Wars, it turns out the DigiMemories are actually a group of ancient, heroic Digimon that protected the Digital World.

Source: Sealed Good in a Can

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