... on both sides. Strauss felt that Hector's approach of always resorting to frontal offensive was wrong and caused many casualties. Strauss ridicules Homer's claim that gods intervene to help mortals. Strauss feels that sometimes it not a god that is behind everything. Chapter ten goes over the Achilles death and all that led to it and after it. Achilles kills Hector and according to Strauss is the point when ... Hector was no longer selfish and was a brave hero that died ... for his home. After this Achilles kills Penthesilea. He forces his way into troy where he meets his dead but late...

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