This, occasion Iliad furious Achilles smiles serves a bittersweet remi — Caroline Alexander, War Killed Achilles: True Story Homer’s Iliad Trojan War

Caroline Alexander the Trojan War The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad

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This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked prize-grabbing in Book One and even Nestor's rambling "authority" pale beside Achilles' instinctive and absolute command of himself and the dangers of this occasion.

Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

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