Achilles' Hero Behavior Cycle in the Iliad

Ancient Greeks praised their heroes and tried to learn from their achievements and mistakes. They believe that most great leaders and combatants follow a predictable cycle of behaviors that often ends in a tragic way. In Homer's epic "Iliad", Achilles is a great warrior who tracks two stages of behavioral cycles, from haste to arrogance, eating, and revenging. Achilles is a very skilled warrior, a great leader, self-everyday and arrogant, taking selfish and simple behavior and losing a close friend.

In Homer 's "Iliad", the hero is a typical Greek hero Achilles. Epic shows that this is the story of Achilles' anger. Other important persons of Iliad are Greek and Trojan leaders in the Trojan war, and very partisan, seemingly human god and goddess - people without death. Homer is believed to have lived in the early days of ancient times, but his magnificent theme was early Bronze Age, Mycenae era. From that time to Homer's possible life, there was a "dark era". Therefore, Homer writes a period without substantive written record. His epic gives us a glimpse of this early life and social stratum, but it is important to understand that Homer is a product of his own era, the details of the Trojan War era apply not

§ 57. In addition to the difference between Homer Iliad and Cyclic Aithiopis, investigating the characteristics of the main character Achilles, the plot has a fundamental difference. In Aithiopis, unlike Iliad, Achilles is immortal after death (Aithiopis Proclus Abstract, pp. 106. 11 - 15). By contrast, in "Iliad", the theme of the hero's eternal life has no clear explanation for any hero. The same can be said. In contrast, as we have seen, the hero's immortality is a clear theme not only in cyclic-Ethiopis but also in other forms of non-Houma poetry.

§ 109. The use of the term crese to identify Hercules as a hero relates to the fact that the same word is used to identify Achilles as a magnificent hero of Homer Ilead. In "Iliad", Clys pointed out not only "glory" but also the glory of the hero given by the epic more specifically. In "Iliad" (IX 413), Achilles chose Kryos instead of life itself, and he attributed this heroic identity to this Kleos. In other words, Achilles achieved the main purpose of the hero: his identity is forever recorded by kleos