Eva Brann writes in her article “The Unexpurgated Robinson Crusoe” that Robinson Crusoe is the archetype, the model of a new man, who will soon become the predominant race – a modern man. Crusoe is a rational man with extraordinary abilities, a solitary individual, and an individual who creates a unique culture. He is a whole man in one: businessman, worker and accountant. He is the ultimate individualist. He does everything alone, for himself. However, what can we say about the modernity of Robinson Crusoe if, while reading the novel, he continued to remind me of Jason, an ancient Greek hero? In this article I will explore a proposition that Robinson Crusoe is an adaptation of an ancient hero into a modern hero. To do so, I will first compare and contrast the notable commonalities of these two heroes, then examine the debate among scholars regarding the superiority of classical authors over contemporary writers, and finally, review the essay by Bruno Latour We have never been modern. understand what it means to be modern according to a contemporary author.As soon as I started reading Daniel Defoe's novel, The Life and Strange and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, from York, Mariner, I noticed something familiar . The story felt so much like a story about Jason and his travels with the Argonauts; but there was something different, there was only one Argonaut in Defoe's novel, only Robinson Crusoe. To explore my proposition that Robinson Crusoe is an adaptation of the ancient hero to the modern hero, I will first explain what is meant by the term ancient hero and then present short summaries of Defoe's novel and Greek myth about Jason, and finally, I will compare the similarities and differences of the...... middle of paper ......agency, while he was "only" a good man when he was obedient . It seems to me that these two characters are heroes because of their action, but it is not a simple action. They are agents because they both participate in what Karen Barad calls “intra-action.” Intra-action does not separate the human aspect from the non-human aspect of the world or the understanding of the world. It does not put culture and nature in conflict, nor does it attempt to subjugate one to the other, but “the nature of the observed phenomena – hero/character changes with corresponding changes in the apparatus – nature/society ", how our heroes changed during two periods of observation. , they remained heroes, only that Robinson Crusoe is now called a character instead of a hero, but the essence is the same. Works Cited Brann, Eva. “The Unexpurgated Robinson Crusoe.” American dialectic. 1.1 (2011):90-111