A hero is someone who fights adversity with their strength, courage and bravery to save people from harm, and someone who gets respect and praise for their noble qualities. Both Theseus and Atalanta are heroes because they both fought creatures that could potentially harm or kill human beings, they both went on arduous journey’s selflessly, and they both got praised by the people after they defeated their foe’s.
First, both Theseus and Atalanta both defeated creatures that could harm or kill human beings. In Atalanta’s myth, she set out to defeat a boar that was going to kill King Oeneus. She defeated the boar and stopped the boar from killing King Oeneus, so no one had died. In Theseus’s myth, Theseus had to kill The Minotaur because he was being sacrificed to it. Even though he didn’t go out to kill it by will, he still stopped hundreds of people from dying in the future by killing the Minotaur. Therefore, proving that both of them stopped lives from ending and people getting harmed.…show more content… In Atalanta’s myth, she first went through the jungle and killed the boar and then she went and raced many men to finally come across one man that beat her. In Theseus’s myth, he was captured by King Minos to be sacrificed to The Minatour. Since he was the last one to go fight The Minatour, he made a plan with King Minos’s daughter to escape and be free. He got to the beach and then sailed back to his kingdom. Since his father thought that Theseus had died, he killed himself and Theseus had to take his spot as king. Thus proving that they had gone on long journeys to do good deeds for
