Hero Quest

Founder of Something New: Something that no one else has done a new city new way of life.

"...two maidens living in the same timie who loved adventure as much as the most dauntless hero..."(pg 180)

Universal: The hero is a representative of every man.

"If there were two Atalantas it is certainly remarkable that both wanted to sail on the Argo, both took part in the Calydonian boar hunt, both married a man who beat them in a foot race and both were ultimatley changed into lionesses."(pg 180)

Unique: The hero is a representative of every man with a special characterists that sets him apart.

"...who could outshoot and outwrestle, too, the men of one ot the tw great ages of heroism."(pg180)

Major Flaw: This is the hero's being special but not perfect.

"She had no liking for men except as companions in the hunt and she was determinded never to marry."(pg180)

Call To Adventure: The hero is given a goal or assigned a quest.

"The brute devasted the land, destroyed the cattle, killed the men who tried to kill it. Finally Oeneus called for help upon the bravest men of Greece, and a splendid band of young hereos assembled, many of whom sailed later on the Argo. With them came as a matter of course Atalanta."(pg181)

Initiation: This is the entering of a strang world and leaving behind the familiar.

"Once two Centaurs, swifter and stronger by fat then any mortal, caught sight of her when she was alone and pursued her. She did not run from them; that would have been folly. She stood fitted an arrow to her bow and shot. A second arrow followed. Both Centaurs fell, mortally wounded."(pg 181)

Journey: These are the road of trials battles and obsticles that the hero must face.

"...famous hunt of Calydonian boar. This was a terrible creature sent to ravage the country of Calydon by Artemis..."(pg 181)

"Atalanta kept her head and wounded the boar."(pg 181)"the honors of the hunt went to Atalanta..."(pg 182)

"It proved well for them that they did, because when they surrounded the boar, the brute rushed upon them so swiftly that it killed two men befoe the others could come to their help, and, what was equally ominous, a third man fell pierced by a misdirected javelin."(pg181)

Companions: These are sidekicks, partners and supporters to the hero.

"Melager them rushed on the wounded creature and stabbed it to the heart. Technically speaking it was he who killed it, but the honors of the hunt went to Atalanta and Meleager insisted that they should give her the skin."(pg 182)

"They declated that Atalanta should not have the skin and told Meleager he had no more right to give it away than anyone else had. Where upon Meleager killed them both, taking them completely off their guard."(pg 182)



"...This ingenious young man, whose name was either Melanion(Milanion) or Hippomenes..."(pg 184)

Supernatural Guide: They provide information, magic, weapons or charms.

"But as so often happens in stories, animals proved kinder than humans. A she-bear took charge of her, nursed her and kept her warm, and the baby grew up thus into and active darling little girl."(pg 181)

Ultimate Battle: This is the final test in a Hero's journey.

"A moment more and he threw the second, this time a little to the side. She had to swerve to reach it and he got ahead of her. Almost at once, however, she had caught up with him and the goal was now very near. But then the third golden sphere flashed acrosss her path and rolled far into the grass beside the course. She saw the gleam throught the green, she could not resist it. As she picked the apple up, her lover panting and almost winded touched the goal."(pg 184)

Transformation: Is when a hero altered in some wa in the final battle.

"Ad she picked the apple up, her lover panting and almost winded touched the goal. She was his."(pg 184)

Death/Rebirth: Is out with the end in with the new. Reincarnation. Death-->Rebirth. "She was his. Her free days alone in the forest and her athletic victories were over."(pg 184)

Boon: A gift of renewal; reward to be shared.

"Some of the heroes resented her presence and felt it beneath them to go hunting with a woman...In this confusion of dying men and wildly flying weapons Atalanta kept her head and wounded the boar."(pg 181)