How Every Greek Hero Died

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• CA

  @Captain_Desolation · 2 months ago

  It’s insane how almost every death is insanely ironic except hector

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• GB

  @gbales84 · 2 months ago (edited)

  One of my favorite parts of the Aeneid was when Aeneas meets Achilles in the afterlife and Achilles basically says "Yeah it sucks down here.  Glory and achievements mean nothing when you're dead"

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• AN

  @andybit1789 · 2 months ago

  Killed by wife, son, host, mom , suicide.. damn. So basically being a hero is not an Ideal but a curse.

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• CR

  @CroCrash007 · 2 months ago

  And then there's Perseus, one of the few greek heroes with a happy ending.

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• 1N

  @1nn3r3V1L · 2 months ago

  i thought odysseus's death to telegamus wasn't widely accepted

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• FA

  @FakeMoon127 · 2 months ago

  Jason's death is one of the saddest end of a hero in greek myth

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• WA

  @waltergibson4977 · 2 months ago

  Odysseus doesn't die in The Odyssey.  It's a later story (not the Odyssey) that says he dies.

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• DA

  @DanTheMan2670_ · 2 months ago

  You didn't have Perseus, the only one that ended happily.

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• ZE

  @Zeiss120 · 2 months ago

  dang what a way to be taken out for Meleagar.

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• EM

  @EmpireChronicles-h3o · 1 month ago

  What makes Greek heroes so memorable isn't how they lived, but how they died. Each death reflects a deeper lesson about pride, ambition, loyalty, revenge, or destiny. That's why these myths have survived for thousands of years—they explore timeless aspects of human nature.

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• TO

  @tomasdavid7829 · 2 months ago

  Weird I read that Odysseus was given another prophecy to find peace in land where noone knows what an oar is, so when Penelope died he travelled with oar on his shoulder and finally rest somewhere in north africa

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• ZA

  @zackfaire2320 · 2 months ago

  Jason of the argonauts was Hercules best friend

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