When Achilles finally does defeat Hector, he ties the body to his chariot...then drags it back to the Greek camp. Once there, the Greeks flock around the dead Trojan hero and proceed to stab the corpse and mock the dead hero, saying how now he is much softer to handle.
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"Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees, he thinks he will never suffer afflictio…"
"And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house."
"Sleep and death, the two brothers."
"There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life."
"The tale of Achilles' wrath, and therefore the poem, ends only once the alienated hero is able to accept loss as an inevitable element in the shared life of mortals."
Greek epic poet traditionally credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational works of Western literature. Closely associated with Hesiod (near-contemporary Greek poet of Theogony and Works and Days). For an intellectual contrast, see Plato, Greek philosopher of the Republic — Republic Book X bans the poets from the ideal city, with Homer as the explicit target — Plato argued Homer's gods set immoral examples and that poetry corrupts moral education. The founding philosophy-versus-poetry quarrel of Western thought.
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