Iliad

The Iliad Chapter 1

What do you make of the fact that Achilles cries to his mommy to intervene with the gods to side against Greece?

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Achilles feels humiliated and does cry to his mother to intervene so that the Achaeans will suffer. This does not make Achilles to look like a great warrior: he looks more like a "mama's boy".

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