Who Is Lios: A Hero's Greatest Fear?

The novel Hero by Mike Lupica tells about a young boy named Zach Harriman realizing he has special powers and that there are people out in the world trying to make him turn over to the bad side, the people that use their powers for harm and not for the good cause. Zach's father, Tom Harriman, died a few months before Zach knew he was unlike others. His father worked as a special advisor to the President of the United States, doing secret operations for the President. His father was killed in a plane crash, and at the crash site the unusual thing was that no bodies were found. Zach begins to think that his father's death was no accident but murder. His father used to tell him bedtime stories of the Bads and the Good of how the used to fight

Decision making plays an important role in human's lives. People can ruin their lives by making wrong decisions. In literature, these people are called tragic heroes. In detail, a tragic hero is a character who destroys his life by making a judgment error. Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, includes several tragic heroes. This play tells the story of a young, depressed prince named Hamlet, who wants to get revenge on his father's murderer, King Claudius. Unfortunately, he mistakes Polonius, King Claudius's advisor, for the King and kills him. This causes Laertes, Polonius's son, to kill Hamlet in retaliation for his father's death. Although Laertes is brave, he always acts quickly and without thinking. This behavior leads to his downfall and makes him a real, tragic hero.

“Life at Sparta in several ways resembled that of a military camp,” (Powell 2001, 219). Many laws that Lycurgus proposed revolved around the benefit of the Spartan military. These implementations set by Lycurgus do not give any benefit to the democratic changes occurring in society at the time.

Dark and scary Odysseus and his men stuck in the cave fighting to save their lives by a big and large creature with the name Cyclops. In the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer, It all started when Odysseus and his men wanted to take a rest after a long time floating on the water. Little did they know what they were getting themselves into. The large creature entered the cave, and man they were definitely in for a heck of a ride. Odysseus is brave and wise.

King Acrisius was king of Argos. He had an amazingly beautiful daughter, but he wished deeply for a son, so he prayed to the gods for them to give him a son. Apollo,the god of culture and prophecy, told him that he will never have a son in all his days and that the son of his daughter will slay him. Acrisius thinks of just killing his daughter,Danae, to prevent his prophecy, but fears of the punishment he will receive from the gods for this act, so he instead locks his daughter in an entirely bronze house and guards it closely. What he did not expect is for the king of the gods Zeus to come directly to his daughter and impregnate her. From this comes a son named Perseus. When Acrisius learns of his daughter's offspring, he puts both Perseus and Danae in a trunk and sets it off into the ocean. By luck or by the will of Zeus Perseus and Danae wash up onto a small island, where a kind hearted fisherman named Dictys takes in the two strangers. They live contently with Dictys until Dictys' brother, King Polydectes, fell in love with Danae. He decides to construe a plot to get rid of her son,Perseus, so that he can have her. The plan he comes is to convince Perseus to go and slay the woman-beast Medusa. He thinks this feat impossible by a mortal man, because any man who lays eyes upon her turns to stone. To aid him on his quest Hermes gives him a sword stronger than that of Medusa's scale. He also told him he would need equipment from the nymphs of the north, who's location was unknown by all except the Gray Women who are ray and live in gray.The three sisters share one eye between them all and

The theme of insecurities appears throughout the poem as Duffy feels like male are leaving women based on their appearance. The poem Medusa clearly shows many examples of insecurities. Medusa is one of the Gorgons three sisters from Greek mythology, famous for having snakes for hair and for turning people to stone. Medusa has always been well known among people, and was well known for having unapproachable looks but Duffy tells her story so that the reader can gain sympathy for Medusa, a monstrous character. The poem begins with “A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy.” This conveys how jealousy has turned the woman into a monster, and how now everything she looks at turns to stone, which connects to the original mythology. This feeling of doubt and insecurities continues throughout the poem, as

Popol Vuh and The Odyssey are epic stories that are considered, “cultural touchstones; they dramatize the life of a nation and help bind it together” (Lawall, 3076). The two stories both form a connection to the culture of Mayan, Popol Vuh, and Greek, The Odyssey, partly through the monsters that preside in each epic. Because of the detailed descriptions of monsters or evil people and the known information pertaining to each story’s culture, the two can be connected. Therefore, Popol Vuh and The Odyssey are comparable by cultures through the monsters that each story depicts.

Quote: “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it's like to live as a slave."

There was once a warrior named Theonitis. He was a good man had many friends though many foes. One those foes was named Argonis, he was the worst of men he would kill you in battle and put your head spike. He was the most evil of men. On one fateful day Theonitis had wounded him in battle wounding him and ever since that day Argonis had hated… he had waited for a chance to kill him since then. Little did he know he was about to get it, later that night Theonitis was hunting and saw the most peculiar light. He didn't know what to do so he went closer until he could almost touch it. Then the creature turned and saw him with this closer look Theonitis saw that this was a phoenix and not just any phoenix a pearl white phoenix. He had became friends

In the fourth chapter, “The Pathfinders”, Strauss explores reasons why local freemen and farmers of Italy would help Spartacus and his men, as well as the movements of Spartacus’ army in its earliest stages. It was critical that locals could help lead these rebels around regions that they couldn’t have understood on their own. Among one of these locals was a man known as the Picentine, who helped lead the rebels around the Eburine hills and avoid the Romans. In these movements, Spartacus continued his guerilla style against the Roman legions, eventually capturing standards of Roman centurions, as well as the fasces of the Praetor Varinius’s lictors, a symbol of power that led to Spartacus’ army swelling in size from either 40,000 to 120,000 men. Spartacus continued moving along the Ionian coast, plundering and taking cities by force, as well as continued training and arming of the army. By the start of 72 BC, the Roman’s would begin to take Spartacus much more seriously.

Theseus, the newly found prince of Athens, embarks on several hero journeys including on against Minos’ Minotaur and the Labyrinth. Joseph Campbell’s representation of the hero’s journey fully encompasses Theseus’ narrative throughout his quest to defeat the Minotaur. Beginning with a call to adventure on through the crossing of the threshold and on to the reward and resurrection. Compared to Rank’s hero’s journey which includes a revelation and transformation with atonement, Campbell’s process fits more precisely to Theseus’ story.

When Odysseus is in trouble he always shows that he is depending on the gods by praying to them. The fact that the gods usually listen to him shows that he is well liked by the gods. In order to be a Greek hero you had to be liked by the gods since religion was such a big part in their lives. Odysseus, with the help of the gods, can survive adventures that kill most other men. Odysseus travels to the island of the Cyclopians. The Cyclopians are giants that have one eye, they don't fear the gods because they believe that they are better than the gods and they eat people. They represent the opposite of what Greek men should be. Odysseus and his men meet Polyphemus the Cyclops. Polyphemus being a Cyclops eats some of Odysseus' men. Odysseus with the help of the gods figures out a plan to escape and he does. Scylla is a ferocious monster with six heads that kills most men that pass by her island. She kills six of Odysseus' men. Odysseus prevents her from killing himself and more men. There is another ferocious monster named Charybdis. Charybdis sucks in water from the sea and creates a whirlpool that kills any ship that passes by. Odysseus passes by her. His crew is killed and his ship is destroyed in the whirlpool but Odysseus alone survives. There is an island that Odysseus passes by with monsters called Sirens on it. The Sirens sing beautiful songs that lure ships toward them. The ships then crash into the island and the people are killed.

The Iliad, a series of epic poems originated from Homer and rewritten by Robert Lattimore, chronicles three main characters: Achilles, Hector, and Agamemnon. All three of these courageous men share common traits which variate with their roles in the war effort. Of the three, two are clearly heroes whilst one can almost be considered a villain. Therefore, as seen through quotes from the Iliad the real hero becomes quickly identified.

In this scene, Dilios addresses an army of Spartans and Greeks at the battlefield of Plataea, another important battle during that time period. It has been months since the 300 Spartans brave sacrifice, but now Dilios commands an army of 10,000 Spartans and over 30,000 Greek soldiers as well. Dilios addresses his new army in sure confidence. He walks along his army with his head held high and his chest out, showing no fear of the upcoming battle ahead. He looks at each man in the eye, personally talking to each one of his comrades. He even engages some of his soldiers by giving them a pat on the back, to reassure their victory is all but

The article in titled Between Lions and Men, Images of the Hero in the Iliad by Michael Clarke is a very innovate piece of work. In the article Clarke puts forward the idea of how the referencing of wild animals in the Iliad is symbolic and highly significant to the ethical and psychological problems of heroism within Homer’s Iliad. The focus that Clarke is placing in relation to the animal similes within the Iliad is the lion similes. As the Iliad is focused on Achilles and his death, it is no wonder that the lion similes are associated with this so called hero. Achilles and how he associates himself with the wolf and particularly the lion is the focal point of this article. In this essay I will analyse and comment on the argument put forward by Clarke in his article Between Lions and Men, Images of the Hero in the Iliad.