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A 5 page paper which compares how the concept of heroism is depicted in each. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the warrior, war was not a battle for territory, but for honor and integrity. The warrior envisioned himself as the protector of his people, and nothing was more honorable
than to die a heros death on the battlefield. In 800 B.C., when "The Iliad" was believed to have been composed, war was the one constant on an ever-changing
political and geographical landscape; by 1954, when director and screenwriter Akira Kurosawa filmed his masterpiece, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai), Japan was still reeling from the devastating consequences of a
twentieth-century war that had ended with an atomic bang some nine years earlier. Japan had been forever changed by war, but the values which had fueled the passions of
their warriors throughout their long and fabled history had never been forgotten. Homer immortalized Greek war heroes and their ideals, and similarly, Kurosawas film considers the heroic attributes of
the Japanese warrior class known as the samurai. Though they are over a thousand years apart, both works, through the characterizations of warriors, attempt to define the concept of
the hero. In "The Iliad," the central character is the warrior par excellence, Achilleus (also known as Achilles), who embodies the Greek heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant
who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is part man and part God, which reinforces his lofty status as an Achaean
leader. He is a man of impressive strength, but he is also a quick-tempered who was often more ruled by his passions than by reason. When Achilleus has
a disagreement with his king, Agamemnon, regarding the ownership of a female slave (war prize), he refuses to fight, and instead retreats to licking his wounds in self-pity. Because
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