Greecian Heroes!!

All the cultures around the world have its own heroes, and also Greece have its own heroes too.
These heroes where very special because each one had his own specific quality, let's check some examples and famous cases:

Achiles: Was a great warrior, an incredible strategist who won millions of battles and was known as "light feet" because he was really fast.
He was one of the principal warriors on Troya's battle and was the principal character of Homer's Iliad, described as a strong man who can't be defeated by anyone, but, ironically he was killed by an arrow in his ankle (maybe his only weakness), and that's what we say "Achiles' ankle" as a reference of weakness.

Odysseus: Was probably the smartest hero in all greek history, he invented the "troyan horse", the strategy that gave victory to greecians over troyans. He was king of Itaca and a great oceans traveler. He's the principal character of Homer's Odyssey.

Jason: He was a mitologic greek hero known because he was the capitan of The Argo, an amazing ship, full of warriors called The Argonauts, brave men who fought a lot of battles and they always came back victorious.

There's another awasme heroes as Theseus, Paris and Perseus; the matter with this storys is that we don't know if they were truth, all of they are explained in books, but are preserved in greecian's oral tradition.

One of the most famous greek hero was Hercules, he was the son of Zeus and Era that was kidnapped by Hades and converted into a mortal. He lived on earth and tried to being a good person, using his divine strength as a superpower.

Here's a video of Hercules' movie by Disney that gives us a little explanation about the past of Hercules and the true definition of "hero".




This is another video of Disney's Hercules that talks about Hercules/Zeus principal enemy: Hades, the god of the death.




As a conclusion, we can say that greek heroes were just "simple humans" that defended the society values and tried to save the world from evil: they were the first heroes of all history!!

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By: Eliana Moreno