Abstract
The bachelor thesis is devoted to chosen women’s heroines of the circle of epic poems
Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer, and it tries with help of selected definitions of myth and pathos to
cover principals, that are expressed through these characters and ways, by which are their
roles constructed. After in the introductory chapter we familiarize with main features of myth
and a role of pathos and in short we take a look of the author’s life, the formation of the cycle
itself, context in which the writing fits thematically and period reception, in the principal part
of the thesis we firstly focus on issues of women’s characters in Julius Zeyer’s writing in
general, and subsequently in analysis of text on description and explanation Vlasta and Libuše
specifically. In comparison of these two heroines has been managed to rehabilitate the
character of Vlasta, whose traditional interpretation of the evil character is not valid in the
case of Zeyer’s epic. The meaning of this thesis primarily consists in an interest of exploration
fewer usual types of women’s characters in Czech literature, that means a woman – a warrior
and also in possibility to consult the phenomenon of the princess Libuše from the different
perspective.