Everyone knows the hero or heroine as the most important character in a story, but the ancient Grecian hero takes an even bigger role throughout the literature and culture of his age. In Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey Achilles and Odysseus represent typical Grecian heroes. Theseus, Persius and Oedipus, three other famous heroes also represent the Greek heroic archetype. These heroic tales were well known to Grecians of the time and had a great impact on the Greek culture. When speaking of the Iliad Moses Hadas writes that, “throughout their history the Greeks were as closely familiar with its text as Puritans with the text of the Bible” (Hadas). The extreme importance placed on these pieces of literature explains much of the ethical and moral conduct of the time. In many cases morals were not even in tact. Men did what they saw fitting in their own eyes. In an article on the ethics of ancient Greece, one author states that, “in the poetic literature of the 6th and......

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Title: The Grecian Hero Archetype
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