r pride. Achilles replies in response to Agamemnon’s journey, “Zeus help the Trojans, and pin the Achaians back against the ships and the water, dying, so that Atreus’ son wide-ruling Agamemnon may recognize his madness, that he did no honor to the best of the Achaians.”(70) The Greeks with both their great abilities and flaws reveal their overall traits in Homer’s Iliad. With the use of Epic characteristics, which bring out their common features. Their religion and beliefs greatly influenced them. In the sight of their strengths and weaknesses, further more of the Greeks themselves. The Iliad does an excellent job of portraying the all together make up of the Achanian’s vices and virtues. Therefore one can distinctly make the connection between the Danaan’s society and culture to Homer’s story, the Iliad. All is due in hopes that one could become interested in the Greek’s and their mythology. Although the Iliad is a fictional tale, it provides much insight to the way they lived their lives in peace and at war, however mostly war....
