![]() ![]() In this article, I try to make sense of the somewhat contradictory interpretations of Achilles' motivation for returning to battle during the Trojan War.įirst, a brief explanation of who Achilles and his fellow Greek heroes were. Alexander the Great, the primary subject of the Achilles Gene, treated the hero as both his idol and his competition. ![]() Later, during the height of the Roman Empire, his name became synonymous with uncontrollable rage and barbarism. In Classical Greece, Achilles was widely admired as a paragon of male excellence and virtue. Perhaps no mythological figure has aroused more controversy, both in ancient and modern times, than the Thessalian warrior Achilles. If I voyage back to the fatherland I love, my pride, my glory dies… true, but the life that’s left me will be long, the stroke of death will not come on me quickly. If I hold out here and lay siege to Troy, my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. ![]() Mother tells me, the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet, that two fates bear me on to the day of death. ![]()
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