... comrade. A combination of the battle, the lust for glory, and the fate caused by Zeus cause the degradation of his civility and heighten his quest for glory and death. Achilles, being bereft of his comrade seeks death and also becomes uncivilized, even sacrilegious. As Achilles and Hector battle, Achilles is aided by the goddess Athena, who tricks Hector, but at the same time he is behaving like an ... animal, threatening to eat Hector's entrails. At the funeral of Patroclus he ... sacrifices Trojan boys. His savagery increases to this point, but then begins to recede when he returns th...

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... hero in his character than anything supernatural. For both authors, the Greek leader is the hero and represented with a type of honor and glory. Achilles is the hero that defeats the Trojans by killing Hector in The Iliad. Among the Greeks Achilles is honored and praised as a great warrior for killing Hector and showing off his victory by dragging around his body for all to see. In this ... , Achilles is glorified as a warrior, but Homer shows Achilles recognizing the honor of a warrior when he decides to give ... back the body of Hector for a proper burial for Troy. Leonidas also has g...

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