Notify me of new posts via email. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Home About Us Contact Us. The Epic Hero Aeneas 16 Sep. Inhuman Abilities Aeneas is the son of Anchises, second cousin to the king of Troy Priam, and Venus, the goddess of love. Trials Aeneas goes through many trials on his journey. Divine Help Aenaes is helped many times in the Aeneid from either the gods or spirits. Aeneas and the Underworld An aspect of a epic hero is that the hero goes to a place forbidden to humans.
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Another aspect of Aeneas heroism is being generous and merciful to his people and enemies as well.
However, there is one reason I cannot treat him as a hero. Aeneas is a brave and fearless warrior, but he never accomplishes any task totally by himself. Aeneas, a brave warrior, never allows his emotions to cloud his sense of duty. He realizes that as leader of his people, he must fight Turnus so he can provide his people with a new city they can call their own.
The role of the good father and son is evident in Aeneas's character. Virgil describes him in Book I as "father Aeneas" and "fond father, as always thoughtful of his son.
During the fall of Troy, Aeneas carries his father on his back and holds his son's hand as they make their way to the rendezvous point.
In Book III, Aeneas's paternal responsibilities are expanded to include his son, the Trojans in his care, and the future of the Roman race. Aeneas celebrates the anniversary of his father's death by making sacrifices to the gods and holding athletic games.
He maintains a deep respect for his father even after Anchises's death. When Aeneas visits the underworld, the pietas he has for Anchises is evident. He respects Aeneas's role as leader and makes every attempt to follow through with Aeneas's duties. The love that exists between fathers and sons, the ideal of pietas , is perhaps the most emotional bond portrayed in the Aeneid. Virgil endows Aeneas with human qualities, portraying him a flawed mortal man.
Aeneas sees his chief obstacles within himself and his greater victories are when he triumphs over them whereas the Homerian hero relies much more on physical gifts than in moral strength to overcome his trials in the battlefield. Homer believed that a man owed great actions to the ideal of manhood and that in his short span of life he must do all that he can to show that he is really a man.
An epic hero, of course is in an epic narrative, but it is what they accomplish in that specific text. First, an epic hero has to make a grand journey and be in the Gods favor or shall we say the chosen one. Also, he has to be seen as superior than any other man. For clarification, the epic hero needs to be bigger, faster, stronger, and wiser than anyone else in the story, except for the Gods of course.
Also, and epic hero is also usually selfless, a leader, and honorable. Throughout the epic, Odysseus is portrayed by his friends and peers as a magnificent man, a godlike figure.
Heroes are no exception to human nature; all people tend to act differently in public than in private. To be a hero, you must have a noble and courageous purpose. Julius Caesar was a character that seemed to believe that he did not need any help in accomplishing his goals, but that was simply simply not true.
Even he needed someone on his side, even if it is after his death in order to preserve his reputation. And Marc Antony came to his rescue, even if it was a little late.
Marc Antony was a fantastic politician as well as a loyal as a servant of Caesar. Achilles can be described as a Tragic Hero in many ways.
He was brave and had great strength but, he was also prideful and lacked control with his emotions, and in all the label of a tragic hero fits him. To many men Achilles was god-like, and immortal, the epitome of a hero to the Greeks, he was strong, brave in the face of war, and of noble birth because he was the son of a goddess.
Every culture has different qualifications and no certain one is right or wrong. Most of the time the hero is always brave and courageous, but cultures will differ on other details relating to a hero.
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