Concepts of a Hero: The Greek and the Modern Hero Introduction In our modern days, ???hero??? is now a term that can be applied to any person with laudable deeds. However, in the earlier times of the Greek civilization, a hero refers to a person renowned for his/her adventures, and who was endowed with great strength and courage. Before a person can be acknowledged as a hero, he/she must undergo and successfully triumph through some ordeal or suffering, with this triumph not necessarily translating to ???staying alive???. In relation, this paper will then explore the said definition of the Greek hero, in contrast to the modern hero. This contrast will be achieved by first looking into the example of an unlikely Greek hero: Agamemnon