... constantly refers to events that have yet to occur and to fated outcomes. Patroclus's return to battle foreshadows Achilles' return to battle, for example, and Hector's taunting of the dead Patroclus foreshadows the desecration of his own corpse by Achilles. Also, Achilles and Hector themselves make references to their own fates-about which they have been informed; technically, only Hector's references foreshadow any event in the poem itself, however ... influenced by Greek honor seen in Homer's The Iliad, just as Roman society mirrored its Greek precursor. However, the two cultures and...

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... 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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