Achilles: The Most Heroic Greek God

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Achilles is the most heroic greek god i've heard about because. Achilles is strong and powerful he goes into battle without any armour and slays everyone. He has no intention on killing anyone the only reason he fights is because his friends. The only fatal flaw he had was his achilles they were unprotected but he was one of the main gods and always came out if battle with a win. Heroes today are way different from greek heroes because they can so many more things than regular humans because they could save peoples lives and do things a regular human can’t do also a basic human can just save someone from getting hit by a car and the greek gods can heal someone who is very sick. They can do so many more extrodianry things than a regular human can do. …show more content…
Greek Gods also had to be valued at all times and to be respected. While they had to be fully respected; we don't really seem to thank those hereos anymore because we think they don't deserve our appreciation anymore. We seem to value more of what a famous persons can do for us than for what a person that has a successful career can do for us like; a firefighter saving us from some hot flames or a current fire in our homes. People as of right now seem to not know the cure of whatever they have because they don't know it all; while gods had their own purpose and their own worships. They basically had all the cures right a way, while we now have to go through a lot of studies to get the answer. We see the heroes today as a normal person with no significance but we seem to act like this because these events occur commonly. What I mean by this is that we always know what the result is going to be a times because these events are so common. For example if a fire starts we know that a firefighter is going to come and extinguish it because that's their duty and main occupation. While with gods we didn't really have a clear viewing of if the ritual is going to work or if the outcome we expect is actually what we

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