How old were ancient heroes supposed to be? We read about how

>>3230285
The average lifespan was not meaningfully lower in the past, the rate of infant mortality was just much lower thus tearing the average down.

If you lived past the age of five you would statistically probably make it to 60+.

>>3230285
Take into consideration that they'd start having kids in their late teens if not earlier

>>3230285
The one I never got was Neoptolemus, he was apparently born shortly before Achilles goes off to the war. So he's at most like 10. Somehow though, he's able to fight with grown men and is one of the champions inside the Trojan horse.

>>3230330
He could've simply been a child warrior, and "born shortly before" they go to war also accounts for when the armies first receive the call to join the fight, and it'd probably take a whole year to get to Troy, making him around 11-13 at the time of the Trojan Horse. There are recorded cases of 12-13 year olds fighting in wars.

>>3230285
Those heroes were all tribal chieftains. Most of them were in their late 30s or older.

>>3230285
Wasn't he gone for 20 years? 10 in the war, 10 just to get back?

>>3230586
More like
>10 years gone
>1 year to get back.
>9 years banging either Circe or Calypso, all the while being called "faithful odysseus" and fuming at the thought of his wife sleeping around.

>>3230597
Truly the biggest of alphas

old testament characters would routinely be hundreds of years old.

>>3230285
Leonidas was in his 60's.
He had much more dudes than 300 when they fought at Thermopylae and most likely didn't rock a perfect sixpack, but still, respect.

>>3231352
yea and Jewish mythology is poorly written

>Methuselah lived to be 969 years old

>>3230285
>Romans are asians now
what the fuck is this sjw crap?

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>>3231559
No, this is an Asian.

>>3230597
>>3230586
10 years probably isn't accurate. In Ancient Greece the saying to mean that it took a long time to accomplish something was "nine times and then a tenth." Having the war last ten years was Homers way of saying it took a long time.