Ancient heroes and modern heroes have some similarity's and some differences i will be talk about Perseus and spider man's similarity and differences also will give a explanation on who they are mostly only mentioning the part i believe needed to know them.
Perseus
Perseus was born from the king of Argos acrisius daughter Danae who he locked away to stop her from having kids because he was told by and oracle that he would be killed by his grandson and Zeus who turned to a golden beam shines through the one window that the room had and impregnated danae making Perseus a demigod Perseus gets help by two gods to defeat medusa them being Hermes who have him his winged shoes and scythe that was used castrate uranos and Athena who lent Perseus her shield so he would have to look at medusa witch would turn him to stone and told Perseus he would need the helmet of invisibility to be complete for his battle Athena gives him the helmet of invisibility witch is helpful when Perseus gets there he finds medusa asleep and takes her head off avoiding looking at the head with the shield and puts medusa's head in a bag leaving returning to the noble that wished to marie Perseus mom Perseus turns the noble to stone.
Spider man
Spider man aka peter Parker was orphaned at the age of six his parents died in a plane crash overseas his aunt may and uncle Ben took him in peter is extremely smart and worked hard and became an honor student at his high school called midtown high school but his shyness and scholastic interest most of the time made him a social outcast one day at a public exhibition demonstrating the safe handling of nuclear laboratory waste materials there peter got bit by a radioactive spider becoming spider man peter tries out the powers he got from the spider fighting a wrestler for some money peter wins but does not get the full amount he was so made he did not stop the robber witch got his uncle Ben shoot peter goes after the robber but does not kill him letting the police deal with him peter then decide to become a street level hero know as spider man who later becomes more than a street level hero being a hero to all of new York.
Similarities
-Both fight to protect their family spider man and his aunt may also Perseus has mother
-both have female love interests spider man and Mary Jane or Gwen Stacy depend on the version of spider man and Perseus with princess Andromeda
-has left their homes to do there quests such as spider man going to different dimensions to help other versions of himself and Perseus leaving his home to kill medusa in order to save his mother from a noble
Differences
Perseus
|
spider man
|
-moves around with his Pegasus
-got powers from god dad
-fights seriously
-from Greece
-does not wear a mask
-fights with a sword
-has kids
-raised by mother and a fishermen
-fights dirty
-stories about Perseus ended |
-moves around by swings around with webs
-got powers from radioactive spider
-jokes around in fights
-New York Queens
-wears a mask
-fights with webs and feet also hands
-does not have kids
-raised by aunt and uncle
-spider man does not fight dirty
-stories about spider man continues |
Source
