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Personal Reflection
Name：Kevin 周德明
Department: Business Administration 企管一甲
Registration Number：10445031
Direction: A personal reflection is an opportunity to reconsider events,
thoughts and feelings from a fresh perspective. Your personal reflection
can include: (1) your opinions, beliefs and experiences; (2) similarities
or contrasts to your own life (i.e. experiences you can identify with); (3)
how real or believable a subject / text is; (4) your emotional state at a
given moment; and (5) sympathy or empathy with characters. You can
support your response through: (1) examples from the text; (2) referring
to specific events within a text; and (3) referring to specific quotes
within a text.
My Personal Reflection:
After half a semester of learning the Greek Mythology, I found the legend of
Theseus the most interesting. In all heroism and intrigues and magic of the Greek
Mythology, I have never realized about the wit of the heroes or the gods. It seems
that there has been little characters who prevail using mostly the ability of their
minds, with the character referred to the most when it comes to cleverness being
Athena, but the fact that heroes such as Hercules and Perseus are celebrated a lot
more than Theseus is quite peculiar for me. With all due respect, the earlier two
were not as good as Theseus had ever been. Perseus needed the help of Athena
and Hermes to defeat Medusa, and by mere luck killed Acrisius his fleeing enemy.
Hercules had always used his mere strength to deal with his problems, and was
often quite dull with his brains. Theseus, on the other hand, was a wise and
benevolent king of Athens. It was said that he was the one that invented the
concept of democracy and applied it successfully so that Athens was the happiest,
most prosperous and the true home of liberty at that time. That is why I think
Theseus deserves recognition more than Perseus or Hercules.