The Iliad

For my blog post I am going to be focusing on the last part that we read, which would be book 24.

We begin this book with Achilles crying over the loss of his friend. Achilles in in such a rage that he takes Hector's dead body and attaches it to the back of his chariot. Now not only does he attach Hector's body to his chariot, he proceeds to drag it around. To me that set off some red flags for me that he may be a little crazy. The gods were obviously very upset over this, so they put a spell like thing on his body so it would not be damaged during Achilles little outburst.

For me I think there is something wrong in the head with Achilles. I know we all get upset and grieve in our different ways when we lose someone close to us. I think what Achilles did was a bit extreme in my opinion. The fact that he attached a dead body to the back of a chariot just shows that obviously this guy has some mental Issues going on.

 I hope I am not the only one in this class that thinks something is wrong with him. Also I do not think that what he did was socially acceptable back then either, considering that the Gods were very upset with him trying to ruin Hector’s body.