Abstract
We will study the book series The Hunger Games (2010) in order to prove the permanence of values and models of Classical Antiquity in Modernity. Therefore, we focus on the female character Katniss Everdeen and the characteristics that define her as heroine, comparing her to the classical heroic model, described by many authors of Greece and Rome, for example, Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, etc. a…