His king, Agamemnon, will not act, so Achilles decides to act: He calls for an assembly of the entire army. Furthermore, no warrior comes close to being his equal as a fighter.Īchilles has a strong sense of social order that in the beginning, manifests itself in his concern for the disorder in the Achaian camp a deadly plague is destroying the soldiers, and Achilles wants to know the reason why. He is invulnerable (except on the heel) because his mother dipped him in the River Styx as a baby. Achilles is also the greatest warrior and fighter among the Achaians. He is a complex warrior who sometimes ignores the cultural norms of his society because he sees through some of its fallacies - in particular, he sees many of the faults in the often narrow and contradictory heroic code. Achilles is the main character, and his inaction, or withdrawal from the fighting, is crucial to the plot. The Iliad is about the Trojan War, but it is primarily about the war as it is affected by Achilles' wrath, or anger. The greatest warrior in the Achaian army.
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