Heroes – Defining the Archetype

Your Tasks Look at the following images and rank them from 1-5 from the least heroic to the most heroic. Look back at your rankings and find a pattern. What does it take, according to you, to be a true hero?

1. A Fearless Leader - Leonidas

2. A Strong Family Unit

3. Soldiers

4. An Athlete

5. Social Activists

Let’s move to the Iliad We have two potential heroes... Achilles & Hector

The Anti-Hero? “Generally considered to be a protagonist whose character is at least in some regards conspicuously contrary to that of the archetypal hero, and is in some instances its antithesis.” direct opposite