I'd say most storytelling throughout history has been good guy vs bad guy. I bet there were similar stories in 1400 AD. Knight-errant was a major literary genre

I'd say most storytelling throughout history has been good guy vs bad guy. I bet there were similar stories in 1400 AD. Knight-errant was a major literary genre during that era, probably similar to the superhero genre today. Aristotle talks about three genres in Poetics: comedy, drama, and epic. He considered the epic as having the same elements as drama, but it's more reliant on song and spectacle. From the examples given, it sounds like Homer was the Stan Lee of the era.