Book 24: Achilles and Priam

1.
        My opinion of Achilles has changed since his encounter with Priam because Achilles treats Priam as a guest not the enemy, he has compassion for Priam and gives the body of Hector back.
- when Priam asks for pity he wants Achilles to remember his own father.
-Priam and Achilles cries because Priam is grieving Hector and Achilles is remembering his father.
-Achilles shows Priam hospitality by feeding him, giving him a place to sleep, and cleaning the dead body of Hector.
- Other than giving back Hectors body Achilles agrees to stop fighting for 12 days.

2.
        I feel sympathy towards Achilles because he is feeling an emotion other than anger and its hard for him to deal with.

3.
        Other than anger, Achilles shows that he can be compassionate, he also shows a softer side when talking or remembering his father.

4.
        The Greeks view on fate is that you either get miseries or blessings.

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The Death of Hector

1.
        The way Achilles insults Hector with actions by letting his men stab the lifeless body of Hector and then Achilles tired Hectors body to the back of his chariot and rode back to the beaches.

2.
        The qualities of Hector that stand out in the excerpt from book 22 is slightly cowardly because he was running away from Achilles, Achilles chased Hector around the walls of his own city 3 times. Also Hector is brave because he was persuaded by Athena to stand face-to-face with Achilles and fight.

3.
         The gods can change a persons fate if they wanted to. in the book Zeus wanted to intervene and save hector from Achilles, but Athena pops in and lets Zeus know that you cant change a persons fate that has already been set in stone a long time go. Also Apollo was helping Hector Run away from Achilles.

4.
        I don't believe that Achilles was justified in the way he mutilated the body of Hector because when Hector killed Patroclus he only took his armor, he didn't mutilate his body so Achilles had no right to do that.

5.
        I think Homer included a description about Priam and Hecuba's grief over their son because its important to know the feelings.