Of heroes and heroism

Hero meets hero. Ulysses claiming the arms of Achilles in a 14th-century French manuscript which contains the popular reinterpretation of Ovid's stories known as Ovide moralisé (Lyon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 742)

In 1898, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer developed a morphine substitute which they called 'Heroin'. The name was inspired by the Gree…