Homer's Odyssey: The Greek Hero

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The greek hero that i'm choosing is achilles his parents are a goddess and a king. I choose him as a hero and one of his extraordinary fears were that he killed the king with no weapons at all. and he had suffered physically from fighting the king because he had no weapons but the king did and achilles fought for himself but nobody was gonna kill the king with no weapons but heim and one of his fatal flaws was his anger and yes achilles is a hero because he fought the king but achilles died by getting an arrow struck in his head

Today we think as heros by saving millions of lives but my hero is a person who is involved in your life and who had been there for you no matter what my hero is my mom because shes done everything for me that she

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