1. Heroes – Defining the Archetype

2. 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?

3. 1. A Fearless Leader - Leonidas

4. 2. A Strong Family Unit

5. 3. Soldiers

6. 4. An Athlete

7. 5. Social Activists

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

9. 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