Heroic Ideal Greece, Rome
An Analysis of the Heroic Ideal from Ancient Greece to Roman Empire
The mythopoetic tradition in Greece begins with Homer's Iliad, which balances the heroic figures of Achilles and Hector, two opposing warriors and men of honor, amidst a war on which not even the gods are in agreement. Hector and Achilles mirror one another in nobility and strength and both represent an ideal heroic archetype of citizenry -- men who do battle to honor both their countries and their names. To illustrate, however, the way the ideal of heroic citizenship changes from the Greek mythopoetic tradition through to the late Stoicism of Roman imperialism, it is necessary to leap ahead several centuries and survey the several different bodies of work.
The mythopoetic tradition in Greece somewhat continually dwells on the same themes with regard to heroic citizenship, whether in Homer or in the Golden Age of Theater in Athens, when Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes dominated the stage. Homer's Iliad (Fitzgerald, 2008) and Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Sommerstein, 1973), for example, are two war-themed works whose tones are dissimilar but whose endings are revealing...
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