Luke Skywalker A Greek Hero A hero to me is someone who stands up for his rights using his courage and braveness to do so. A hero also does not have to be intelligent or huge they just have to be courageous enough to risk their life for others or what they believe in. In the move “Star Wars”, Luke Skywalker is the hero and he portrays all these characteristics. He shows that if you fight for what you believe in you will be victorious. Luke Skywalker resembles a Greek hero because both “Star Wars” and Greek myths have the same story line, there fore both of their heroes go thru the same trials.
Gilgamesh desires immortality and desires to kill Humbaba to become famous and remembered by his people, if he cannot become physically immortal he can become immortal figuratively, engraving his name in history. With Enkidu as his guide through the forest, they leave their known town and pass through the seemingly endless Cedar Forest to Humbaba’s den. Their figurative transformation takes place when they confront Humbaba. Gilgamesh and Enkidu become afraid and lose themselves in the face of this new obstacle. They forget who they were and are.
After being with Medea for over ten years, his hubris kicks in and decides he wants to marry a princess, thinking he will one day be king when her father dies. If abandoning his wife and children was not enough, Jason also offered Medea gold and his friends, another foolish idea he threw out. Only after Medea kills Jason’s children, new wife, father-in-law, and leaves him will Jason learn that he is not five-years-old and cannot get what he wants every time. In contrast, Jason has some points where he shows he is actually a man and has a heart. In Jason and the Golden Fleece, Jason goes back to his Uncle Pelias to get the throne back, which was rightfully Jason’s.
Xenia is usually done to show your wealth, or out of fear that you may be punished by Zeus. The host and the guest fear Zeus because he is the protector of travelers. The ancient Greeks thought that gods were sometimes disguised as strangers so they always demonstrated their piety by giving hospitality to a stranger. In The Odyssey there are many stories showing xenia, and it is always described using the same lines so that we recognize its significance: “A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them, appetizers aplenty too, lavish with her bounty.” However, we also see that when visiting cultures outside of their own, Odysseus and his men expect to be shown this same “brand” of xenia from the other cultures. This ethnocentric view often leads to a loss of life or other disaster for Odysseus and his men.
281-286). It was not the loss of personal property or spoils of war that infuriated Achilles, it was the face he lost when Agamemnon snatched away his prize for the sake of reminding all that were present that he, though not a great warrior like Achilles, was still the greater man. His ire raised, the childish Achilles cries to his immortal mother Thetis to do the unthinkable, “go and sit beside [Zues]… persuade him to help the Trojan cause, to pin the Achaeans back against their ships, trap them round the bay and mow them down” (1. 485-488). This is how the mighty Achilles hopes to demonstrate his greatness; have his comrades mown down so that Agamemnon could see his folly for disgracing
Gilgamesh the Immortal Gilgamesh is an epic story of one king's quest for immortality. It was a quest with a low probability of success, but he was relentless. He traveled far and met with the only immortal human, Utnapishtam, who had survived the Great Flood. Both Utnapishtam and a minor goddess, Siduri, advise him to leave off searching and live a good life; he ignored them both. And, in the end, he succeeded in achieving, not eternal life, but immortal fame.
The film does, however, convince the audience that the characters are firm believers in the gods. A simple understanding that cinematic appeal has an impact upon the production of the film shows how the film lacks dominant aspects of Homer’s work. Thetis, however, goddess of the sea and Achilles’ mother, is present in Troy, but not as a goddess, as a true character. Thetis strives to influence her son Achilles, promoting his participation in the war. Thetis’ role in the Iliad proves to be significant as she reminds Achilles of his mortality.
Odysseus was the King of Ithaca and his wife, Penelope, was the niece of the King of Sparta. Together they had a son named Telemachus. One story says that when Odysseus was called upon to enter the Trojan War he pretended to be crazy to avoid going. An oracle had told him that he would not return for 20 years and that he would return as a beggar. His ruse failed when he was forced to show his sanity in order to save his infant son’s life.
For example, the quote above describes a scene when Hally insults his father and Sam tries to calm him down by telling Hally never be ashamed of his own father. An enraged Hally claims that Sam should mind his own business and stop telling him what to do. Hally is inexperienced in terms of dealing with his alcoholic father because he loves him dearly, but wishes he could change into an understanding person. “The Odyssey,” by Homer, commences with an epic hero named Odysseus journeying away from his home, Ithaca, Greece. He is away from his son, Telemachus, and wife Penelope for twenty long years, battling gruesome monsters and being held back by lustrous goddesses.
The Iliad is the first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war. Homer, for reasons of his own, suppressed the truth about the Trojan war- in reality, the Greeks lost. Homer once said, “Men learn with difficulty… But they are deceived only too readily”. In The Iliad, two characters have the narrative urge, and something approaching a synoptic view of the scenes surging around them. Achilles sings stories of heroes' deeds in battle, and Helen embroiders scenes of fighting on an elaborate textile.