1. Achilles and Luke Skywalker as Heroes
Some Definitions of "Hero“ / The Hero Packet
Trojan Cycle Summary of Events
Star Wars IV.48 A Hero's Welcome

2. Heroic Seach as Life Process
Relationship with Parents
Birth
Coming of Age / Mentors
Exile
Loss
The Choice
Name Vase of the Achilles Painter (450 BC)

3. Achilles’ Parents Achilles’ parents Mortal vs. Divine
Thetis, his mother
Peleus, his father
Mortal vs. Divine
Attic red figure kylix, signed by Peithinos 500 BC Antikenmuseen, Berlin

4. Marriage of Peleus and Thetis
Joachim Wtewael The Marriage Feast of Peleus and Thetis ca oil on copper, .75 x 8.75 in.

5. Luke’s Parents Relationship with parents Mortal vs. Divine?
Padme, his mother
Anakan, his father
Mortal vs. Divine?

6. Achilles and His Mother
Hyginus 96
Iliad 18: New Arms for Achilles

7. Luke and His Mother

8. Achilles and Peleus Peleus marries Thetis
Mortal Peleus makes Achilles mortal
Peleus gives Achilles to centaur Chiron to be raised.
Iliad 24: Ransom of Hector
Peleus consigns Achilles to Chiron's care, white-ground lekythos by the Edimburg Painter, ca. 500 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Ransom of Hector Toledo Amphora black figure
Late 6th century B.C.

9. Luke and Vadar
Anakin
Padme in Revenge of the Sith: “There's good in him“ Script 230; chapter 46 “I am your father” script Chapter 46
Luke in Return of the Jedi: "I sense the good in you” Script 78, chapter 39

10. Achilles’ Birth
Thetis dipping Achilles in the river Styx. Thomas Banks ( ) English; about 1788
Victoria and Albert museum
Apollodorus Note 111
Honoré Daumier

11. Luke’s Birth
Return of the Sith 46

12. Achilles and Chiron

13. Luke and Obi Wan Kenobi

14. Luke and Yoda

15. Exile: Achilles on Skyros
Nicholas Poussin. Achilles and Daughters of Lycomede Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Hyginus 96

16. Exile: Luke on Tatooine
Star Wars Scene: IV.10 Lars Family Dinner (start at 4:30)

17. Luke on Tatooine

18. Achilles’ Loss Gavin Hamilton
( 1723 – 98 ), Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

19. Luke’s Loss
Torched Homestead IV.17

20. Achilles’ Choice Mortal Yearning for Immortality
Achilles’ Choice (Immortal Fame)

21. Luke’s Choice