... return to the fighting. Achilles' best friend and essential "soul-mate", Patroclus, is slain at the hands of the mighty Hector of Troy. Achilles is hence distraught at this happening and therefore goes to wreak his own havoc with the life of Hector to gain revenge. He manages to eventually kill many Trojans and then finally after chasing Hector several times around the city ... of Troy, slays him and desecrates his body by dragging him excessively as somewhat of an artifice to get his stored up hate, anger, and fear out. In ... conclusion, the epic poem "The Iliad- describes a very vio...

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... instead, because he thinks his friend can help him fight Achilles. Once Achilles catches up, the friend disappears. This illustrates one of the biggest contradictions between a warrior's heroic code and the warrior's human side. Achilles, mad and vengeful, kills Hector in a way that is unnecessarily cruel and barbaric. He ... shamelessly drags Hectors body around. Achilles does not care about the feelings of Hector's family, or any of the on looking Trojans who admired Hector. These actions are consistent with the heroic warrior code of the Greeks, which put a lot of value on payback and...

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... dangerous adventure is the hero's normal occupation, In my opinion, Odysseus is much more heroic than Achilles. Throughout both the Iliad and the Odyssey, Odysseus showed more cunning and acts of bravery than Achilles. Both men did make an attempt to avoid fighting in the Trojan War, however, neither succeeded. After Odysseus was tricked into serving the Greeks, he was sent ... , go into battle alone to die by Hector's spear. It takes a great loss like this for Achilles to get up and fight again. Even then he was not fighting out of bravery, but purely out of angry, with the desire of re...

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