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Essay heading: Home vs. Homers
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Achilles becomes furious when Agamemnon takes a slave girl Achilles has been awarded.
Wikipedia; "The Iliad"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad Achilles withdraws from the battle and prays to his mother, Thetis, a goddess, to turn the tide of battle against the Greeks.
Homer; Butler, Samuel (translator); The Iliad; book 1
The gods grant Achilles his prayer, and he does not return to battle until his best friend is killed by the great Trojan hero, Hector...
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31 Achilles has been offered a choice: either he can be a great and famous hero in war and die young, or the can live a long, happy life without any lasting fame whatsoever. Although Achilles initially chooses not to die young, the death of his friend forces him to make the choice that will make him famous for all time, but tragically dead at a young age...
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