While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus ... climaxing with the death of Hector at ...

the great Greek hero Achilles mourns the death of his friend Patroclus with lamentations, funeral games, feasts, war cries. Over the corpse of Hector, the mourning is quieter, deeper. Something of ...