And they usually have at least one enemy among the deities who wants them
dead, uses his or her powers to make life miserable for them, and often also
succeeds in killing them. The more heroic the hero is, the higher is the probabi-
lity that one of the deities will begin to dislike what he does, and therefore be-
gin to plot his downfall. For example, Ajax - mentioned some posts earlier - an-
gered Athena, who had him shipwrecked, and when he survived this and boas-
ted that even she did not manage to kill him, Poseidon made him drown ...