What Makes a Hero and Understanding Heroes Option 2) What makes a hero?
Is heroism a consistent trait across cultures and time periods, or does its definition, and its literary manifestation, shift with the times in response to changes in values or circumstances? In this essay, you might consider obvious figures such as Gilgamesh, Achilles, Hector, Aeneas, etc., but you might also think about less obvious figures, and how they can be understood as heroes, such as Noah, Abraham, Job, etc.
In thinking about the similarities and differences between heroic representation, what overall argument can you make about the idea of the hero itself in antiquity?
