... Homer that Achilles was born of a sea-nymph-a sea goddess-making Achilles seem more than human by birth. The way Homer describes Achilles in his epic poems is to be a proud warrior who considers himself to be undefeatable and even confronts gods. However, in Herodotus' Histories, Leonidas is described to ... warrior but like a god. Herodotus seems to emphasize more of the hero in his character than anything supernatural. For both authors, the Greek leader is the hero and represented with a type of honor and glory. Achilles is the hero that defeats the Trojans by killing Hector in The Il...

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