The Iliad

[miles]

Is Achilles a respectable hero, one worth admiring? Why or why not? In your include Achilles' behavior in specific events from the story that helps you to formulate your answer

[DOB]

I don't know and do you know why. I haven't read The Iliad, just like you.

[JohnPPotts]

Well, to be honest I can't remember the Iliad that well, but I'd say that it all depends on whose perspective you're looking from. To Anciet Greek eyes, Achiles is everything you want in a hero: he is entitled to humiliate the dead Hector (as he defeated him fair and square) and he could claim whatever that bint's name was as a right of conquest. Of course, to modern eyes such actions were reprehensible.

[WoWo]

In my day we had to read the books when we did the homework.

[bernardo]

In my day, lazy children who couldn't be bothered to do their own homework had to copy from each other using a real-life pen and paper rather than using this new modern-fangled internet-thingy.

[DOB]

In my day, we had to get up off the couch to change the channel!