Achilles: Mythical Hero Greek and an example that all young Greek tried to follow in order to gain immortality. "human groups for the formation of a common past, the development of a collective memory, found this all in an" old "and vanished but whose reminder is necessary, as something shared unanimous, means first of all give dead certain characters or certain aspects of such characters, under proper funeral ritual, a social status through which are communicated, if only in his capacity as dead, with the center of the present life, thanks to which are intervening in it, through which continue playing an important asset in the space of social forces that balance depends on both the community and the permanence of the order. "
Jean-Pierre Vernant.
The Individual, Death and Love in Classical Greece. Editorial
Paidós. Pg 103
This feature of human groups referred to the historian Vernant, it is natural to all societies and cultures, but also times or historical period.
But for the Greek antiquity, the only way a real transcendence after death, was to the beautiful death, ie death in the battlefield, in the prime of his youth. Only then, his name would be remembered forever and not be part of the large number of unknown dead.
These people who managed this death, were known as heroes, to whom they are remembered in epics and marked by example, to new generations.
"Thanks to the glory that has been able to conquer dedicating his life to combat, the hero falls in the collective memory the fact that the individual subject as expressed in a biography which death, putting final has unalterable fact .
Ibid. Pg 91.
"Hector: I can not imagine dying without a fight, not without glory (AKLEIOS) without making even a feat whose story is known by men of tomorrow. "
Iliad XXII, 304.
in Chilean society, which would be some of these characters, who after his death, still gravitate to its historical significance to our culture and country?
