Books Twenty-three and Twenty-four

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Apollo has tried consoling me in the dark days of my grieving, and has tried persuading me from asking for any more dreams of what is going on beyond the walls of Troy, but I will have none of that. I need to know what is happening to my dear dead husband.

In another dream, I had found out that Achilles has now started eating normal mortal food. Does this mean he has once more taken the form of a mortal? He is acting more like a human than a god. He had buried his friend, Patroklos and proceeded to hold games, auctioning his treasures off. Then he continues to humiliate my dear Hectors corpse, dragging him around with no mercy. Good Apollo though, thank you. Thank you for protecting my husbands body from wear and tear and scavenging dogs.

That was a grand and joyous sight when I saw Hectors body come back into the city of Troy. Tears flowed down my cheeks and that of Helen's and everyone for that matter. Priam was sent out with ransom to obtain my Hectors body. It was only until later on that he told us his way of reasoning. 'Think of your father' he had said to him. They both wept, and he had allowed the body to be returned home, and a hold on fighting until Hectors funeral games were completed.

Does this reinforce the human side of Achilles? He had wept like a child with my father in law, he had embraced the fate of himself and that of Hector. He had followed the rules of the gods, and no longer ate their foods. Are we seeing mortal Achilles?














Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
     Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
     majority of the information in my characters blog post.