Greatest hero's of all?

What hero's, from epic poems or actual larger than life historical figures, are the greatest?
What do their stories tell us about the human condition?
Which hero best embodies what it means to be a human/ is the most relatable to ordinary guys like me?
Also recommend some epic poems Veeky Forums.

Jesus Christ.

He died for the sins of mankind. The perfect lamb.

The Son of God resurrected and ascended to the right hand of God.

All who believe in Him get eternal life.

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Odysseus is pretty relatable as far as epic heroes go. He's not the strongest or the fastest, even though he's really strong and fast, but gets by with his with and charm. Also the Odyssey is the most readable epic by far imo

Diomedes

Gilgamesh

The way Gilgamesch dealt with death is very uplifting to read.

Nimrod was a very evil man.

Read Genesis and the Book of Jasher.

I'very always found that Beowulf has a relatable heroic arc and his desires for fame and wealth drive him untIL his final battle in which it is duty and the desire for some form of immortality drives him.
Excellent poem but would have been better without the clumsy editing of the bloody christians.

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What do you mean how he dealt with it? Guy went on a huge journey to try and cheat death but failed.

Beowulf for heroism
Gilgamesh for mortality
Any others? Specifically ones with relatable heroes.
does he have his own epic?

He hunted lions in a symbolic gesture of saying "Fuck you" to God because Judah would represent the lion.

He built a tower to heaven in an attempt to challenge God.

God's answer? Confuse the languages and destroy Nimrod/Gilgamesh's proto-New World Order.

That was the beginning of nations, tribes and kingdoms. Aswell as the Babylonian paganism being spread all over the world.

abraham's father terah also was the head idol-maker for nimrod.

He was better than Aeneas, and yet Aeneas got an epic for propaganda purposes.

Killing humbaba is what got his bff killed.

Satan in Paradise Lost is interesting.
And as a Latin nerd I must recommend the Aeneid.
If you ever come across the Faerie Queen burn it and then beat it's owner with a pole as their madness might be contagious.

Didn't they also fire arrows above the clouds and God trolled them by putting blood on the arrows when they fell down to make the Babylonians believe they hit the angels?

Jasher and Enoch are such interesting books, shame it's not considered canonical in most bibles.

You shut your accurate mouth. Aeneas is independently great.

There is only one great man and only one ideology worth placing above your ego.

They are diogenes and egoism respectivally.

>The cheap copy of the Odyssey that slanders the good name of Odysseus in the process.
In all serious though Aeneas is no Odysseus.

Gilgamesh. He loses his best friend and goes on a quest for immortality that leaves him completely empty handed. It's pretty much a perfect metaphor for mortality.

You missed that "proto-new world order" bit. This guy is a Christian conspiracy theorist who tries to tie everything into the Bible.

What was the purpose for killing humbaba anyway? All it did was get enkidu dead.

STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WE'RE HERE

To establish his fame as a great hero, also to acquire wood (which was rather rare and precious in Sumeria). Or if you mean why did he kill him rather than spare him, that's because he trusted Enkidu's judgment on Humbaba's offer of servitude. Though it wasn't just killing Humbaba that got the gods up in arms against them, it was also mocking Ishtar and killing the bull of heaven, and even then that all-knowing whose name escapes me at the moment was still batting for them.

Humbaba was a good boy though, just doing the gods wishes.

Don't know if anyone has share out that the Illiad by Homer from Greek history is a good epic.

Never heard of it.

Really? That's like one of the classics to study in either High school or College/University...

Perseus is the greatest hero. Dude literally completed his main quest while blindfolded, then killed a sea dragon and picked up a wife on the way home like he was getting McDonalds.

Odyseus was a cuck. Penelope was taking some huge amount of dick while he was gone, then told him she stayed loyal all this time after he returned and the dumbass cuck actually believed her.

Came here to say this

>Then joy awakened in that dwelling when the king knew that the good Sir Gawain was come, for he deemed it gain. King Arthur kissed the knight, and the queen also, and many valiant knights sought to embrace him. They asked him how he had fared, and he told them all that had chanced to him--the adventure of the chapel, the fashion of the knight, the love of the lady--at last of the lace. He showed them the wound in the neck which he won for his disloyalty at the hand of the knight, the blood flew to his face for shame as he told the tale.

>"Lo, lady," he quoth, and handled the lace, "this is the bond of the blame that I bear in my neck, this is the harm and the loss I have suffered, the cowardice and covetousness in which I was caught, the token of my covenant in which I was taken. And I must needs wear it so long as I live, for none may hide his harm, but undone it may not be, for if it hath clung to thee once, it may never be severed."

The information on Penelope's faithfulness was relayed to him by the gods, and he had favor in their sight (well everyone except Poseidon).