Human beings are a reflection of their own cultural affiliations. It is this system of conventions and institutions that defines their identity and their relation to each other. Since the dawn of human civilizations, culture has been playing an important part in shaping the image of heroism in literature. In Homer’s generation there was a form of cultural heroism in which man’s sole source of knowledge stems from mythical tales and the battlefield as his only arena for survival. Therefore, man’s vision to the world became merely analogous to his own ancient Greek microcosm. In The Iliad, Homer sings of his oral traditions through Achilles’s personality and the way in which his actions interpret the aspects of his war environment. Yet, in
