I. Title At first, a title seemed hard to come up with; what few words could assemble the significance of all of the heroic traits of Theseus? At first I thought of, “The Legend of Theseus” but that seemed very bland and overused. Then I thought, “what about The Mighty Theseus?” Once again, boring and pabulum. I laid back and took out my Mythology book and scanned through the first paragraph of, “Theseus”. After reading the first few sentences, something caught my eye; “...there grew up a saying in Athens, “Nothing without Theseus” (Hamilton 208). Those three words told the reader how much the Athenians loved and respected Theseus, to the point where they have a saying for him. The saying shows how significant and important Theseus was to the Athenian people. If there is
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Audience and Purpose
The target audience for “Nothing Without Theseus” would be individuals with an interest in mythology; it can be any gender or age group. It can also be people who don’t think of Theseus as the greatest hero in Greek Mythology so my essay could probably convince them and people who agree with my thesis. The people who would not be included in my target audience would be people with no interest in Mythology or no knowledge of Mythology. My audience should know something about Theseus so they would get a clue whether or not Theseus is the greatest hero in Mythology. B. I decided to write about the topic of Theseus because I wondered, who out of the four Greek heroes I read about is the best? Who is worthy of the title, “the most admirable hero according to the traits of a hero”? My first thought was Theseus because of his wisdom and bravery. The reader should read my essay because it is full of influential information and facts about Theseus and his heroism. It could either convince the reader that Theseus is the greatest hero of Greek Mythology, or give the reader ideas about who Theseus was and why he is significant to the founding of democracy and the way we govern
Audience and Purpose
The target audience for “Nothing Without Theseus” would be individuals with an interest in mythology; it can be any gender or age group. It can also be people who don’t think of Theseus as the greatest hero in Greek Mythology so my essay could probably convince them and people who agree with my thesis. The people who would not be included in my target audience would be people with no interest in Mythology or no knowledge of Mythology. My audience should know something about Theseus so they would get a clue whether or not Theseus is the greatest hero in Mythology. B. I decided to write about the topic of Theseus because I wondered, who out of the four Greek heroes I read about is the best? Who is worthy of the title, “the most admirable hero according to the traits of a hero”? My first thought was Theseus because of his wisdom and bravery. The reader should read my essay because it is full of influential information and facts about Theseus and his heroism. It could either convince the reader that Theseus is the greatest hero of Greek Mythology, or give the reader ideas about who Theseus was and why he is significant to the founding of democracy and the way we govern