COMPARISON OF TWO HEROES IN THE SCHOOL OF DEPTH MYTHOLOGICAL CRITICISM, FREYDUN & THESEUS

It is more logical and mature to pay attention to the more important aspect of mythological comparisons which is comparative mythological criticism so that we will focus not only on the similarities of two or more mythological characters but also criticize and report on them. The present article brings two mythological Iranian and Greek heroes “Freydun” and “Theseus” to the school of depth mythological criticism and studies their similarities to five levels and then reviews each of these five levels in depth and finally discusses these levels as archetypes and formula for making heroes.