GRST 209 Lecture 5: 1)Mythological Hero

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: Peter Toohey

Document Summary

Creature that lives forever and much more powerful than humans: sometimes they seem (third aspect) to live a life of ease, this really mattered to. In our time we talk about visual beauty, proportions of the face features or body measurements. If you are lower class, you cannot be a hero. People will laugh at you and they will drive you off the stage. In the iliad, in the trojan war people (greeks) were question if they should stay, because they didn"t believe they would win. Thersites turns to him and hits him across the back with his staff. The whole audience laugh and then odysseus says let"s stay : this just shows that ordinary class people cannot be heroes. You can also be more literate than some of the aristocrats. Some traders in athens, probably were, as well as people that made pots were pretty wealthy too now.