The Hero Named Heracles

A mythic hero is a fictitious character who contains good characteristics such as courage, or nobility. One Greek hero that portrays a mythic hero is known as Heracles. A mythic hero is often the offspring of a god, deity, and human being. Heracles is the son of Zeus and Alcemene. Heracles also portrays a mythic hero, because of his superhuman strength, bestowed to him by his father.  Heracles is forced to take a set of challenges in order to clear his name for slaughtering his wife and children(he was driven to madness by the goddess Hera). His quest, which is a journey taken in search of something of value, which all mythic an folktale heroes have, was to face 12 devastating challenges, such as defeating the Nemian lion, or going to the underworld. The quest of Heracles portrays all the difficult challenges we have to go through in life.