Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-26884760-20161114185619

belated entry but I think King Arthur (mythology) is a prime example of this paradox we have.. he is a horrible figure if you look at him via our standards but we really shouldn't.. Arthur may be adopted as an icon but he's NOT a modern figure and his primary storytellers have been dead hundreds of years - the idea of Arthur as a character has become as flawed as any folkloric hero as time grows but in his ORIGINAL ERA he was a hero.

same deal as Robin Hood, who modern takes have seen as a lot less heroic - to the point Robin Hood can be argued as a cut-throat, a murderer and a traitor (any folkloric character can be given horrible traits because folklore was a horrible setting, medieval times was rife with misogny, racism and genocide but to them it was seen as admirable.. then we get to the Antiquity period and we get even WORSE - like the original Hercules, who would tear off opponents legs and beat them to death with said limbs if they annoyed him..).

I think King Arthur should be axed from this wiki, no matter how horrible we view ancient heroes by today's standards they are still protagonists by the fact they were written as the (relative) "good" guys in time-periods and cultures were good and evil weren't really a thing.. at least not in the way we see the terms today.