The Iliad is not a work that gives a mere account of historic facts and events but one where persons are the protagonists by virtue of their behaviors, values, motives and decisions which affect the flow of the story. Achilles is one of these persons that play a primary role in the plot of Iliad; as Homer puts it in the first lines of this work, the anger (mênin) of Achilles, his withdrawal fro...

A real myth of a hero, moves toward a lion and a subversive dragon, is a story of soul evolution. The hero myth shows a stage in which a child is separated from dependency in order to reach to personal integrity. According to Rumi, permanent presence of journey precursors shows that there is no way to escape and not only heroes but also all humans experience passing from thresholds in order to ...

"Felix Mitchell is the biggest drug dealer ever here. He made history in Oakland, Calif.," Owen said. "He's a hero..." He is accused of masterminding the distribution of millions of dollars in heroin and ordering the deaths of five rivals during Oakland's 1980 drug war. But to Owen and scores of kids growing up, as Mitchell did, in East Oakland's bleak 69th Avenue housing projects, Felix Mitche...

While zombies have been studied in a certain detail in vivo, the attention has been mostly focused on small-scale experiences, typically on case studies unexplicabily concentrating on just a hero and a few dozen zombies. Only recently a new, fruitful area of research on the behaviour of masses of zombies has been investigated. In this paper, we focus on modeling the behaviour of swarms of zombi...

Reseña de Rosario López Gregoris y Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (coords.) (2020): The Hero Reloaded. reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media.