Illiad
The Iliad is the quintessential epic. It is full with gods, goddesses,
heroes, war, honor, and glory. However, for just a short while
near the very conclusion, Homer avoids all of those epic qualities. The
banquet scene in Book XXIV is the most touching, the most "human" scene in
the entire poem. In the midst of the dreadful gulf of war and anger, there
occurs an intimate moment between two men who ironically have much …
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…reaching out to Priam, Achilles, for a moment, brings these two bitterly
warring nations into a zone of peace. However, there is no pretty ending.
Troy will soon be destroyed. Patroclus is dead. Hector is dead. Priam and Achilles will soon be killed. Yet somehow, in the midst of war, destruction and suffering, there is a sense of hope that no matter how cruel one can be, there exists some good in all of us.
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