A hero

What characteristics are required for one to be considered a hero? According to ancient philosophy, there were many reasons why Gilgamesh, Achilles, and Aeneas were considered heroes. One of the main qualities that a hero has is that they have problems with women. Gilgamesh had a problem with sleeping with the women of his town. He felt that as his duty of being a ruler, it was his responsibility to sleep with the unwed women before their wedding days to truly determine in fact if they were virgins or not. Achilles has a problem with women in a sense that Agamemnon demands his Achilles’ war prize Briseis from him as a form of compensation, when it is found out that Agamemnon’s prize Chrysies has caused the plague. Feeling insulted, Achilles decides to refuse to in the war any longer. Aeneas has a problem with women because the woman that he fell in...