Mugging the Monster/Oral Tradition

Examples of in  include:


 * Older Than Feudalism: This happened to Odysseus a few times in The Odyssey.
 * Theseus basically started his heroic career by dealing with a series of robbers on his way to Athens.
 * Contrast with Oedipus, who was much the same, only it was people who cut him off in traffic instead of robbers.