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Where is Achilles from? Achilles - the greatest Greek hero of the Trojan War

06.05.2021

Achilles

(Achilles) - in the Iliad, one of the bravest Greek heroes who besieged Troy. Son of Thetis and Peleus, grandson of Aeacus. Achilles' mother, the goddess Thetis, wishing to make her son immortal, immersed him in the sacred waters of Styx; only the heel, by which Thetis held him, did not touch the water and remained vulnerable. The armor forged by Hephaestus also contributed to the invulnerability of Achilles. Before going to the Trojan War, dressed in a woman's dress, he lived on the island of Skyros, among the daughters of King Lycomedes, where the goddess Thetis hid Achilles, wanting to protect him from participating in the war. Odysseus exposed his deception: having arrived at Skyros under the guise of a merchant, he laid out a lot of goods attractive to women, and among these goods was a set of weapons. While the daughters of Lycomedes examined the jewels and fabrics, Achilles looked only at the weapons. At this time, Odysseus' comrades raised a false alarm in front of the palace, the princesses fled, and Achilles, grabbing his sword, rushed towards the imaginary danger. By this he betrayed himself and soon left with Odysseus for the war. He performed many feats near Troy, but in the tenth year of the war, Achilles died from the arrow of Paris, which Apollo directed at his heel. Hence the expression "Achilles' heel" (vulnerable spot). From the union with Elena the son Euphorion was born. From Deidamia, the daughter of Lycomedes, Neotolem was born, without whose participation the Trojan War could not have ended.

// Gottfried BENN: The Fifth Century // Valery BRYUSOV: Achilles at the altar // Konstantinos CAVAFISS: Treason // Konstantinos CAVAFISS: Achilles' horses // Marina TSVETAEVA: Achilles on the rampart // Marina TSVETAEVA: From the cycle "under the shawl"

Myths of Ancient Greece, dictionary-reference book. 2012

Achilles in art

This is especially noticeable when depicting Achilles in painting, which at one time or another is at the forefront of exhibitions: depending on the era and culture, the paintings always show different episodes of the life of Achilles, emphasize various aspects of his heroism, giving a new color and different qualities. and the shape of his body and figure, evaluating him differently in discussions.

At the same time, the images of Achilles are sought in new contexts of life aspects: so in ancient greece the image of Achilles is found mainly on outstanding canvases depicting men's feasts.

Here the hero can be noted as an outstanding warrior, who is equally distinguished by his strength and courage, and he is also distinguished by his cruelty, which transcends all human and divine barriers.

They always decorated their dwellings and tombs with paintings of Achilles. However, unlike, in the foreground in these canvases, Achilles was depicted much less often as a warrior; rather, episodes from his childhood and youth were chosen here, which show him as a young beautiful boy or as a desired lover in a dazzlingly courageous image.

Later eras once again emphasized completely different sides of Achilles: in the court culture of the Middle Ages, due to the fact that many ruling dynasties referred to their alleged origin from the Trojans, they showed Achilles as a cruel opponent of Troy, images of the overthrown image of a noble knight were especially favorite.

In the Baroque period, Achilles, first of all, appears before us as a courageous lover and hero, beautiful in his hour of death. The 18th and 19th centuries presented him as a reasonable, sentimental, almost tragic and unforgettable hero. This story of continuous rethinking of Achilles continues today: to this day we present him through the prism of our own views. But unlike the ancient Greeks, for whom their hero Achilles was neither good nor bad, but everything he did was simply outstanding for them, we need accuracy. So today we see Achilles in the movies, in comics or computer games. IN modern world pay special attention to his appearance and figure.

Birth and youth of Achilles

Achilles was the son of Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis. Since little Achilles, like his father, was mortal, his divine mother dipped him into the river Styx to make him invulnerable and bestow eternal life. But on his leg there was a place that his mother held him, and on which water did not fall and, therefore, it remained vulnerable - this is the heel: as a result, this place was called the notorious “Achilles heel”.

Achilles was taught with pleasure by the Centaur Chiron, who taught the young hero horseback riding, hunting and weapon handling, as well as playing the lyre and healing arts.

Since it was predicted that Achilles would either die before Troy or live a long but very glorious life, Thetis hid her son, disguised as a girl, on the island of Skyros. There he hid among the daughters of King Lycomedes and fell in love with one of the girls named Deidamia. However, the cunning Odysseus discovered the hero hiding on Skyros and asked him to follow him to the war. So Achilles came to Troy, where he became the most prominent hero of Greece.

Trojan War

Already at the wedding of his parents, the fate of Achilles was sealed. The goddess of discord, Eris, was not invited and, angry, caused a quarrel among the goddesses, Hera and Aphrodite.

The young Trojan prince Paris had to choose the most beautiful of the three goddesses. Finally, he chose Aphrodite herself beautiful woman on the ground. However, Paris was in love with Elena, and promised her the title of the most beautiful woman on earth. He turned to Aphrodite with a request to sell her title of beauty, which made the goddess very angry.

Since Elena was already married to Menelaus, the king of Sparta, he kidnapped her and took her with him to Troy, and thereby called, in which Achilles then took part and died.

Achilles and Penthesilea

In the fight against the Greeks, the Trojans are supported by the Amazons. Participating in the "battle of the Amazons", he meets Queen Penthesilea, and falls in love with her, a beautiful warrior. He kills her with a sword, and remains with his love, which will remain unfulfilled.

Wrath of Achilles

After almost ten years of war and countless exploits, a dispute broke out between Achilles and King Agamemnon about the beautiful slave Chryseis. Agamemnon eventually won, and Achilles refused to obey, even though he lost his slave and suffered his honor.

The withdrawal of Achilles from the struggle and the victory of the Greeks occurred, as it was predicted that only with the participation of Achilles the city of Troy would be conquered. For this reason, Agamemnon sends an ambassador to Achilles, who must convince him to return to the battle - this was not successful, and the problem remained. Only the death of Patroclus brings Achilles back to the battlefield.

When Patroclus, the closest trusted and close friend Achilles, was killed by the son of the king of Troy Hector in battle, Greek hero returned to the war and challenged Hector to a duel. Achilles won in a fierce battle between two equal opponents and finally kills the Trojan heir. Filled with hatred for the man who is the murderer of his friend, Achilles dragged Hector's body around Troy's impregnable city wall.

He dragged the body to the Greek camp, where he was denied a proper burial. But when Priam, king of Troy and father of Hector, came to Achilles and begged to give him the body of his son, Achilles changed his mind and gave the body to his father so that he could be buried with all honors.

Death of Achilles

Soon after Achilles killed his worst enemy Hector, fate prepared a blow for him. Paris, Hector's brother and the main culprit of the Trojan War, hit the hero in his weak point - the heel. Since the arrow, directed by the intervening god Apollo, was poisoned, this immediately led to the death of the hero. Thus the prophecy was fulfilled, and Achilles died after a glorious battle, having lived an outstanding but very short life.

(Quint Smyrna. Posthomerica)

After the burial of Antilochus, Achilles again gathered to avenge the death of his friend on the Trojans. Despite all the failures, they, carried away by fate, again entered the battle, trying to save Ilion. But after a short skirmish, Achilles with a brave squad drove them back to the city. A few more moments, and, breaking down the Skeian gate, he would have killed all the Trojans in the city. Then Apollo descended from Olympus, terribly angry with the Achaeans for the disasters of the Trojans, and went to meet Achilles; the bow and quiver rang terribly on his shoulders, the earth shook from his steps, and the silver-armed god exclaimed in a terrifying voice: "Get away from the Trojans, Pelid, and stop raging, otherwise one of the immortals of Olympus will destroy you." But furious from the battle, Achilles did not retire, did not heed the command of God, for the gloomy fate was already standing next to him; he boldly exclaimed: “Phoebus, why do you challenge me against my will to fight the gods and stand up for the arrogant? You have already deceived me once and distracted me from Hector and the Trojans. and god." Having said this, he rushed at the Trojans, who were still running in all directions across the field; and the enraged Apollo said: "Woe! How raging he is! None of the immortals, even Zeus himself, would have allowed him to indulge in rage and oppose the immortals for so long." And, covered with a thick cloud, he launched a deadly arrow.

The arrow hit Achilles in the heel. A strong pain suddenly penetrated to the very heart, and he fell like a tower overthrown by an earthquake. “Who is this,” exclaimed Achilles, looking around, “who fired a destructive arrow at me? no mortal can defeat me in open battle, but the cowardly treacherously lies in wait for the strongest. Let him come out, even if he is a celestial! Yes, I feel that this is Apollo, clothed in darkness. My mother has long predicted to me that I would fall under his destructive arrow near the Scaean gate: she spoke the truth." So said Achilles, and took out an arrow from an incurable wound; blood flowed in a black stream, and death reached the heart. Achilles angrily threw a spear, which the wind immediately carried to the hands of Apollo, who returned to Olympus in the assembly of the gods. With words filled with bitterness, Hera met him: “What a disastrous deed did you do today, Phoebus? After all, at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus you played the zither among the feasting gods and begged the newlyweds for a son: you killed this son today. But this will not help your Trojans : soon the son of Achilles will arrive from Skyros, equal in valor to his father, and he will break out in misfortune over them. Madman, with what eyes will you look at Nere's daughter when she appears at our Olympic meeting. Thus spoke she, blaming God; Apollo did not answer, fearing his father's wife, and, lowering his eyes, silently sat down away from the other gods.

Death of Achilles. Sculpture by Christophe Weyrier, 1683

Achilles had not yet lost his courage, his blood, greedy for battle, boiled in mighty limbs. None of the Trojans dared to approach him, prostrate on the ground: so timid villagers stand at a distance from the lion that they are struck by the hunter in the very heart and with rolled eyes and clenched teeth fight death. So angry Achilles, like a wounded lion, fought death. Once more he rose and with a raised spear rushed at the enemies. Orifaon, Hector's friend, he pierced the temple, so that the point of the spear penetrated the brain, and Hippothea gouged out the eye; then he slew Alkifoy and many other of the Trojans, who fled in fear. But little by little, Achilles' limbs grew cold and strength disappeared. However, he resisted and, leaning on a spear, shouted in a terrible voice to the fleeing enemies: "Woe to you, cowardly Trojans, and after my death you will not escape my spear, my avenging spirit will reach you all." The Trojans took to flight at the last click, thinking that he was not yet wounded; but Achilles, with stiff limbs, fell among other dead bodies, heavy as a rock; the earth shook and his weapons roared. This is how Achilles died.

The Trojans saw the death of Achilles, but, trembling, did not dare to approach his body, like sheep fearfully fleeing from a predatory beast killed near the herd. First of all, Paris dared to exhort the Trojans to approach the fallen one: would it not be possible, he thought, to steal the body with armor and bring it to Ilion to the delight of the Trojans and Trojans? Finally, Aeneas, Agenor, Glaucus, and many others, who had timidly fled from Achilles before, rushed forward together with Paris; but Telamonides Ajax and other strong friends of Pelid opposed them. Because of the body and armor of the fallen, a terrible battle ensued: corpses piled up in mounds all around, and the blood of the dead flowed in streams. The battle went on all day, until evening. Then, in a stormy whirlwind, Zeus swept between the fighting and allowed the Achaeans to save the body and weapons. A strong Ajax on his shoulders carried the body of Achilles out of the fight, while the cautious Odysseus pushed back the advancing enemy. The Achaeans safely carried the body of Achilles to the ships, washed and smeared it with myrrh; then, having clothed him in thin and delicate robes, they laid him, mourning and weeping, on a bed and cut off his hair.

Ajax takes out the body of Achilles from the battle. Attic vase, ca. 510 BC

Hearing the sad news of the death of Achilles at the bottom of the sea, Thetis with all her Nereid sisters sailed to the Achaean camp, filling the air with such loud cries that the rumble from them carried far above the waves, filling the hearts of the Achaeans with fear. The unfortunate mother and the maidens of the sea, lamenting, stood in mourning attire around the bed of Achilles; the choir of nine muses descended from Mount Olympus and sang funeral songs in honor of the deceased, and around the saddened army mourned and cried. It took seventeen days and seventeen nights for both immortal gods and people to honor with tears and funeral songs the beloved hero, abducted by death. On the eighteenth day they laid the body, clothed in precious robes, on the fire and burned it with many slaughtered sheep and bulls, with honey and myrrh; throughout the night, armed Achaean heroes solemnly circled and circled the blazing fire of Achilles. Early in the morning, when everything was destroyed by fire, they collected the ashes and white bones of the hero and put them all together with the ashes of Patroclus in a golden urn made by Hephaestus, which Dionysus presented to Thetis. That was the wish of the friends. Then they placed the urn of Achilles in the tomb, which had already been built on Cape Skaeus, on the banks of the Hellespont, Patroclus; there they placed the ashes of their friend Antilochus and poured over all this - a monument for future generations - a high mound: this mound is visible from afar, from the Hellespont. After the burial of Thetis, in memory of the death of Achilles, she arranged a feast in the Achaean army with splendor never seen before by mortals. The first heroes of the army showed their strength and dexterity in various games, and from the hands of Thetis they received the most beautiful gifts.

Based on the materials of the book by G. Stoll "Myths of classical antiquity"

Looked at Troy again. Then I thought, why is it all with beards, and Brad Pitt, who is Achilles - without a beard? It seems that among the Greeks, it was indecent for a mature husband to sparkle with his bare chin. I went to re-read the Iliad, various articles on the topic and dictionaries. Found... I don't know how widely known it is, but I put together everything that interested me.
Still, it's funny when they try to fashion something big and whole from different sources.

Achilles and Elena the Beautiful.
Achilles - (I will focus on this Latinized version of his name, which is more familiar to me) is the youngest of the heroes of the Trojan War, therefore, in the vast majority of images, he is drawn without a beard. The story with the bone of contention, with which, in fact, the whole war began, happened not just anywhere, but at the wedding of King Peleus and the nymph Thetis, the parents of Achilles. Achilles himself was not yet in the project.

At this time, Paris in the American film, the young and also beardless Orlando Bloom, no longer only pastured the flocks, but also lived a non-Platonic life with the nymph Oenone. I mean, he was about 15 years old. But, judging by the story with the apple, he didn’t have a lot of brains, or he thought of something completely different. Well, would a sane person agree to exchange a goddess who loves him, then a simple shepherd, for a simple mortal woman who was already kidnapped once and who already had at least two men before him and whom he had not even seen, just because some then another goddess said that she was the most beautiful of all! And to believe that there is something even more beautiful after the three great goddesses, among whom was the goddess of beauty herself, appeared to him in the costume of Eve!
By the way, Oenone continued to love him even after Paris cheated on her with Elena and committed suicide when he died. Enona was also involved in the death of Paris, because she could save, but did not want to. But, there is nothing else to think about when you ask for help from your ex.

All the Achaean leaders, except for Achilles, at one time managed to woo Elena the Beautiful and were once her suitors. And they went to Troy because they were bound by an oath to uphold the honor of Elena's future husband. This oath was invented by the cunning Odysseus, so that Elena's suitors would not cut each other out of jealousy.
Among the suitors of Helen, a friend of Achilles Patroclus is also called. Although in the film he is slightly younger than Achilles and is even his student, the Iliad suggests that he was older. And, going to Troy, he received an order from his father in case of emergency to slow down the too young and hot Achilles. It is also mentioned there that Achilles, a pupil of Chiron, introduced Patroclus to the medical knowledge that the centaur revealed to him. Their ability to heal wounds and knowledge of medicinal herbs was very useful in the war.
It seems that despite the passing years, Elena remained just as beautiful, so after her death the gods decided to give her to Achilles as a wife, although he did not ask them at all about it, and there were more than enough others who wanted to. She was 20 years older than him, if not more, and had already been married three times, and if her return to Menelaus is considered a separate marriage, then four times.

Age of Achilles.
How old was Achilles? As already mentioned, he and his son Neoptolem are the youngest heroes of the Trojan War. Despite the abundance of many powerful men in the Achaean camp, for some reason their soothsayers could not imagine victory without the participation in the war of the teenager Achilles and the almost child Neoptolemus. And the local Katsura named Odysseus is doing everything so that they find themselves near Troy and, in pursuit of glory, personally killed almost half of its population. This does not include the surroundings.
Unlike the rest of the heroes, Achilles still wore long hair - a youthful hairstyle. On the day of his coming of age, he had to cut them off and sacrifice them to the local river god. (The Sperchy River in Thessaly, where he was born.) But when he went to war, he was not yet of age, so he promised to give his hair to God when he returned. He did not fulfill his promises, cutting off his hair as a sign of mourning for Patroclus and putting it in the hand of a deceased friend before burning it. I didn’t find anywhere what time the majority came of age in Phthia, but it is known that in Athens this was at 18 years old, in Crete - at 17.
One more nuance. The nymph Thetis hid Achilles from the war on the island of Skyros among the daughters of King Lycomedes, and Odysseus sent to search for him could not identify him among the girls. This means that by the beginning of the Trojan War, Achilles looked tender and graceful enough to look like a girl. But at the same time, he had already matured enough for Deidamia, one of the daughters of Lycomedes, to be able to conceive a child from him.
The Iliad says that 10 years have also passed since the abduction of Helen until the arrival of the Greeks near Troy. It took Menelaus and Agamemnon so many years to gather troops and find a way to Troy. The war itself lasted ten years. This means that Achilles was 14-15 years old when Odysseus came to call him to the war, 15-17 years old when it began, and 24-27 years old when he died. But these are my personal teapot calculations. The Russian version of the wiki, for example, believes that he was 35 at the time of his death.
From the moment of the story with the apple to the kidnapping, at least 8-10 years also passed. This figure is derived from the age of Achilles' son, Neoptolemus. Achilles went to war when he was not yet born. The Trojan War lasted 10 years, but at the end he managed to take part in it, and his father’s armor turned out to fit him. Even assuming that Neoptolemus was an accelerator, he must have been no less than thirteen years old. We add up the smallest probable age of father and son, subtract the twenty years that have passed from the abduction of Helen to the fall of Troy. It turns out seven or eight years, at least. It took Aphrodite so much to reward Paris. However, "the gods have nowhere to hurry, they have ahead - eternity."

Achilles and women.
With women, as I understood, Achilles was usually kind and gentle, but women were terribly unlucky with him.
- The already mentioned daughter of Likomed Deidamia, gave birth to a son to the hero and raised him alone. When the son grew up a little, he also went to war. The return of her lover Deidamia did not wait.

As a reward for future participation in the war, King Agamemnon promised Achilles his daughter Iphigenia as his wife. But Artemis was angry with Agamemnon. Priest Kalhant said that there would be no fair wind to Troy until Iphigenia was sacrificed. Reluctantly, Agamemnon summoned his daughter under the pretext of a wedding with Achilles. Upon learning of the impending murder, the young man tried to save the bride, promising to kill anyone who touched her. To avoid strife among the Achaeans, Iphigenia herself ascended the sacrificial altar. At the last moment, Artemis spared the girl, replacing her with a doe, she herself was transferred to Tauris in the Crimea, where she made her priestess, whose duties included sacrificing all foreigners who fell into those parts. She never saw Achilles again.
It was assumed that in return for Iphigenia and to strengthen ties after the victory over Troy, Achilles would marry one of the three remaining daughters of Agamemnon. But he did not live up to this happiness.

Achilles was in love (according to another version she fell in love at first sight) Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons who fought on the side of Troy. Perhaps this love during their duel with Achilles prevented her from winning, the Achaean pierced her chest with a spear. Having removed the helmet from the dead girl, he saw her beauty (according to other versions, he recognized in her that unknown girl whom he had recently met and fell in love with) and was very sad. Achilles cut off the head of the freak and half-witted Thersites, who dared to laugh at him and desecrated the body of Penthesilea. However, there are later versions of the myth, where Penthesilea kills Achilles in love, but Zeus, at the request of Thetis, resurrects him. As for Thersites, he was a freak only because the ancient Greeks were simply unable to imagine a bastard with a beautiful body.

Henry Justice Ford. Achilles and Penthesilea.

Near Troy, Achilles met the daughter of King Priam Polyxena and killed her little brother before her eyes. According to another version, he did not kill anyone, but simply met and fell in love with her, was going to marry and stop the war. But either Agamemnon ruined everything again, or the Trojans killed Achilles, who they hated, during an attempt at peace negotiations. Be that as it may, after the fall of Troy, the shadow of Achilles appeared to the Achaeans and demanded that Polyxena be sacrificed to him, which his son Neoptoles did. Polixena calmly met death, seeing in it deliverance from slavery and a possible union with Achilles. According to one version, she took her own life.

There is nothing special to say about Briseis, and so everyone knows that its seizure from Achilles (Agamemnon tried again) led to the fact that the Trojans killed almost all the Greeks and almost burned their ships. Achilles did not plan to marry her. She was loved, but only a concubine. It seems that after the death of Achilles, her fate was also unenviable.

In addition, other women are mentioned who became the military booty of the hero, lived in his tent, performed various chores and served for the pleasure of the owner of the tent, his friends and guests. For example, in the absence of Briseida, "... Achilles rested inside a strong-leaved bush. A lesbian, captured by him, lay down with him ..." And having returned Briseida, Agamemnon gives Achilles 7 more lesbian girls, skilled in needlework. Gee, in the 19th century the last word was still used in its original meaning. In the same one, in which the words "Muscovite" or "Parisian" are used. For 10 years of standing near Troy, the warlike Achaeans actively ravaged neighboring cities and environs. They also visited the nearby island of Lesbos, so lesbian slaves were found in the Achaean camp in great numbers.

What else can be said about Achilles?
He's not a demigod, he's a 3/4 god. If not more. His paternal great-grandparents were Zeus himself and the nymph Aegina. And according to one of the mythical versions, Poseidon could have been a great-great-grandfather.

As in the film, in the Iliad, Achilles was blond and Hector was brunette. Translators call Achilles' hair "blonde curls", but on Skyros, where Achilles was hiding under the guise of a girl, he wore woman's name"Pyrrha", which means "Red-haired". The name "Pyrrhus" - "Red" was the original name of his son Neoptolemus.

According to the Iliad, Achilles had an increased fluffiness. In Veresaev's translation, "shaggy chest" is mentioned, while Gnedich's translation refers to "the hero's hairy chest."

As for the Achilles' heel, in the early versions of the myth, the invulnerable hero actually dies from a wound in the heel. In later and more realistic versions, the arrow of Paris, which hit Achilles in the heel, only immobilizes him, and he dies from a second arrow aimed at the chest. Just like in the movie, when Paris, having wounded him in the heel, then shoots him in cold blood.

Fulfilling the prediction of the Delphic oracle, Achilles healed the unhealed wound of Teleph, the king of Mysia, which he himself once inflicted with his spear, simply by applying this spear to the wound. In gratitude, Telef showed the Achaeans the way to Troy.

Achilles and company sailed near Troy on black ships. Just like Matthew Perry's squadron to Japan.

Unlike Achilles, the horses that carry his chariot are immortal. Once they were titans, and their mother was a harpy. Under the guise of horses, they hide from the revenge of their own kind. Poseidon gave them to Peleus for his wedding. The horses are called Xanth (the name means "red, brown, light golden") and Baliy ("spotted"). Xanth, moreover, can speak and has the gift of prophecy. After Xanthus said that it was not they who were to blame for the death of Patroclus, but the vengeful gods, and prophesied a quick death to Achilles, the hero became angry, and the evil Erinyes forever shut up the talking horse. From now on, Xanth preferred to keep quiet.
Only Achilles himself, his friend Patroclus and another of his friends, Automedon, who was Achilles' charioteer, could manage the immortal horses. The latter is so famous for dashing driving vehicle that his name has become a household name.
Hector's horse was also called Xanth, but no oddities were noticed behind him.

Homer's Achilles has a constant epithet "swift-footed", but during the pursuit of Hector, when they ran around the walls of Troy four times, he was never able to close the gap and catch up with the enemy. And they ran a lot. Even if Troy were as small as the Moscow Kremlin, they would cover about 9 kilometers. And if there was at least a kilometer between the opposite walls, then this distance would increase to 12 - 16 km. Achilles could not catch up with the enemy, despite the fact that he was running in a narrower circle, trying to push Hector away from the wall, from which the Trojans could shoot him, Achilles. Hector ran along the outer path. He was not afraid of the enemy's arrows, because Achilles forbade his own to shoot and steal the glory of victory from him. However, fleet-footed Achilles could not catch up not only with Hector. He didn't even catch the turtle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_tortoise
By the way, about constant epithets. Hector remains helmet-shiny even when he puts on his head a trophy helmet belonging to Achilles. Achilles' helmet did not shine. Maybe Hector had chalked him before going out to fight?

The overgrown child Achilles constantly complains about his misfortunes to his mother - the goddess. Mom immediately appears, pats him on the head, consoles him, and then begins to correct the situation. Considering that her connections are more abrupt than those of the ladies from the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, those who offended Achilles afterwards are terribly sorry.

From the age of nine, Achilles knew that without him the victory at Troy was impossible. From early childhood and almost until his death, all fortunetellers and soothsayers, including the talking horse, told him that he would die under Troy. He has no personal interests in Ilion. He needs only fame, and for some reason he prefers this fame to a long life.
Achilles, the character of the Iliad, almost resigned himself to the fact of his imminent death. Therefore, he does not value his life. Just like the lives of other people. "Ah, anyway, sooner or later we'll all be there." Bitterness from death best friend makes it even more violent.
In later versions of the myth, the hero looks much more humane.

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