/lit/ - Literature

Now I posted this on /tv/, and they told me that If I wanted to get a well reasoned response I should talk to you guys.

" The Doctor is Dionysus without the wine, Hermes without the wings, and Hephaestus without the forge.

In short, he's a modern god, in the later roman sense. Many romans didn't believe in the gods in a literal sense, but believed in the metaphors that their stories contained.

The doctor teaches the value of nonviolence, the importance of cunning, as well as the importance of friends and the value of a human life. What has the doctor taught you?"


That was my /tv/ post. But I ask this to you in a legitimate way. Does our fiction fill the same place that the gods did for the ancients? If so, what characters have stayed with you for a while? Which characters fill the "god" archetype?

Picard is an Odysseus and Kirk is a Jason.