Achilles and Luke Skywalker as Heroes Some Definitions

Achilles and Luke Skywalker as Heroes Some Definitions of "Hero“ / The Hero Packet Trojan Cycle Summary of Events Star Wars IV. 48 A Hero's Welcome

Heroic Seach as Life Process • • • Relationship with Parents Birth Coming of Age / Mentors Exile Loss The Choice Name Vase of the Achilles Painter (450 BC)

Achilles’ Parents • Achilles’ parents – Thetis, his mother – Peleus, his father • Mortal vs. Divine Attic red figure kylix, signed by Peithinos 500 BC Antikenmuseen, Berlin

Marriage of Peleus and Thetis Joachim Wtewael The Marriage Feast of Peleus and Thetis ca. 1606 -10 oil on copper, . 75 x 8. 75 in.

Luke’s Parents • Relationship with parents – Padme, his mother – Anakan, his father • Mortal vs. Divine?

Achilles and His Mother Hyginus 96 Iliad 18: New Arms for Achilles

Luke and His Mother

Achilles and Peleus • Peleus marries Thetis • Mortal Peleus makes Achilles mortal • Peleus gives Achilles to centaur Chiron to be raised. • Iliad 24: Ransom of Hector Peleus consigns Achilles to Chiron's care, white-ground lekythos by the Edimburg Painter, ca. 500 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Athens Ransom of Hector Toledo Amphora black figure Late 6 th century B. C.

Luke and Vadar Anakin Padme in Revenge of the Sith: “There's good in him“ Script 230; chapter 46 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Lbjru 5 CQI W 4 “I am your father” script Chapter 46 Luke in Return of the Jedi: "I sense the good in you” Script 78, chapter 39

Achilles’ Birth Honoré Daumier Thetis dipping Achilles in the river Styx. Thomas Banks (1735 -1805) English; about 1788 Victoria and Albert museum Apollodorus Note 111

Luke’s Birth Return of the Sith 46

Achilles and Chiron

Luke and Obi Wan Kenobi http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=hhdk 0 Y Or. VCg

Luke and Yoda

Exile: Achilles on Skyros Nicholas Poussin. Achilles and Daughters of Lycomede. 1656. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Hyginus 96

Exile: Luke on Tatooine Star Wars Scene: IV. 10 Lars Family Dinner (start at 4: 30)

Luke on Tatooine

Achilles’ Loss Gavin Hamilton ( 1723 – 98 ), Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

Luke’s Loss Torched Homestead IV. 17

Achilles’ Choice • Mortal Yearning for Immortality • Achilles’ Choice (Immortal Fame)

Luke’s Choice