Miller makes me like Achilles and care about Achilles and see him as an essentially good guy. His anger and his choices make a lot more sense to me in the context of this book than they do in the poem.
Oh, that makes me very happy. I always felt that Achilles really had a point, given how his society worked. He was doing Agamemnon a favour being there in the first place; Agamemnon was an asshole and took away his HONOUR PRIZE - you don't *do* that in such a society and you don't put up with that, either. Why would he continue to fight for the asshole?
And his response to Patroclus getting killed I find entirely understandable.
(I'm a big fan of the Iliad. Really don't like the Odyssee, though.)
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Date: 2019-07-31 07:51 am (UTC)Oh, that makes me very happy. I always felt that Achilles really had a point, given how his society worked. He was doing Agamemnon a favour being there in the first place; Agamemnon was an asshole and took away his HONOUR PRIZE - you don't *do* that in such a society and you don't put up with that, either. Why would he continue to fight for the asshole?
And his response to Patroclus getting killed I find entirely understandable.
(I'm a big fan of the Iliad. Really don't like the Odyssee, though.)