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Essay Archive - Being a Hero
Being a Hero
Thesis: Despite his accomplishments and the glory associated with his life,
Aeneas only achieves the status of hero through divine intervention, and this
god-given position causes him just as much grief as it does splendor.
What is a hero? We would like to think that a hero is someone who has
achieved some fantastic goal or status, or maybe someone who has accomplished a
great task. Heroes find themselves in situations of great pressure and act with
nobility and grace. Though the main character of Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas, is
such a person, it is not by his own doing. He encounters situations in which
death is nea....
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