The Iliad of homer is a poem that is "15,693 lines written in dactylic hexameter."(Intro, 14) and takes place during the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Iliad concentrates mostly, on the lives and tribulations of Hektor and Achilleus. In this paper I am going to write how Achilleus and...

The Achaeans have just sacked a Trojan city. They are making their way home with their spoils. Theleader Agamemnon has claimed the greatest prize for himself: a beautiful woman named Chryseis,the daughter of a Trojan priest named Chryses. The champion of the Achaeans, Achilleus, has claimed the n...

In the epic poem, The Iliad, Homer describes a social occasion in which character's values, the values of that character's culture and the themes those values develop can be derived. The funeral games, held by Achilles in honor of his late friend Patroclus, is a perfect example of such an occasion....