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The Iliad

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The Iliad	comment	The Iliad (Greek: Î™Î»Î¹Î¬Ï‚ IliÃ¡s) is an epic poem from The Trojan Cycle describing a few months in the ninth year of The Trojan War, a siege of the great city of Troy by an alliance of Greek city-states. It is considered one of the cornerstones of Western literature and attributed to Homer. The Iliad is one of the oldest works of literature to survive intact.The main plot concerns Achilles, the invaders' strongest soldier. Achilles, according to prophecy, has a choice: either die an untimely death that ensures his legend lives forever, or retire to a life of normality and obscurity. After a falling-out with King Agamemnon, Achilles withdraws from the war, tempted by the second option. He informs his mother, Thetis, of his plight and says that he will not return until his honor is restored. With that, Thetis convinces Zeus to intercede and concoct a scheme to restore Achilles' honor. In his absence, the fortunes of battle begin to swing the Trojan way. Achilles eventually chooses glory... after his closest friend Patroclus has been killed by the Trojan prince Hector.Within this narrative framework, the poem gives an incredibly detailed and engaging snapshot of the war, from the battles themselves to the personalities of the elites and the political machinations of the gods; both prophecy and free will are strong forces. Crossover characters from other Greek myths are a bonus for the dedicated fan.For more details, and the even more famous sequel, see Homer.Is the Trope Namer for: Achilles in His Tent Cassandra Truth Classical Chimera
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The Iliad / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Iliad / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Nestor, who lectures the Achaeans about all the glory he had when he was young.
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The Iliad / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Iliad / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Paris is given this characterization when he flees from the fight with Menelaus. Also Dolon.
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The Iliad / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Iliad / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Many women are abducted or taken captive. To the Greeks that would always have been rape in the sense of "theft of a person" since women were the property of their the father or husband. This almost certainly involved rape in the modern sense of "nonconsensual sex" as well, but the narrative is rarely explicit about this. Slaves can also be taken for the purpose of doing work, of course, and Agamemnon even once swears that he didn't have sex with a captive woman he stole from Achilles.
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The Iliad / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Iliad / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Achilles is so depressed after Patroclus' death, Patroclus' ghost has to come back to tell him to stop mourning and burn his corpse.
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The Iliad / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Iliad / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Hector is in many ways far more noble than Achilles. For a start, he's just about the only man who treats Helen with respect.
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The Iliad / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Iliad / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Nestor, the oldest soldier and the wisest of the Greeks. Still a badass and and excellent mentor, although suffering from a very bad case of Cassandra Truth.
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The Iliad / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Iliad / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Done by Odysseus and Diomedes.
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The Iliad / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Iliad / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: When Hera beats up Artemis with her own bow, Artemis runs back crying all the way to her father Zeus' lap on Olympus.
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The Iliad / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
The Iliad / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Greece is full with heroes, each worth at least 100 common soldiers. For the humans, there is Achilles, Aeneas, Agamemnon, Ajax, the other Ajax, Diomedes, Glaucus, Nestor, Hector, Patroclus, Odysseus, Sarpedon, Menelaus, Memnon... EVERYONE, in fact. Except for Paris. For the goddesses, there's Hera and Athena.
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The Iliad / int_1b39f70c	type	Womanliness as Pathos
The Iliad / int_1b39f70c	comment	Womanliness as Pathos: The driving conflict of Achilles being in his tent for the first half is Agamemnon refusing to hand over the conquest he wanted, the priest's daughter Briseis.
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The Iliad / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Iliad / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Idomeneus (King Of Crete) and his aide-de-camp, Meriones. They're practically joined at the hip. Still badass though.
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The Iliad / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Iliad / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: If Achilles is so badass, why is Agamemnon in charge? He has the most ships, by ten. Admittedly, the entire fleet was put together to bring Helen back to her husband, Agamemnon's brother.
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The Iliad / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Iliad / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: In all of Helen's appearances she is never given a full description. Homer uses the reactions of those around Helen to emphasize her beauty.
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The Iliad / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Iliad / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Most all the central warriors are either kings or princes.
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The Iliad / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Iliad / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: In the end of Book Nineteen, Hera temporarily gives Achilles' horse, Xanthos, the power of speech for a few minutes.
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The Iliad / int_1f6854a4	type	Tragic Intangibility
The Iliad / int_1f6854a4	comment	Tragic Intangibility: The Ur-Example of the trope is Achilles' attempt to hug Patroclus's ghost. As he goes to hug him, he passes through him and Patroclus passes into the floor. Achilles agonizes and despairs alone.
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The Iliad / int_1fffdf05	type	Advantage Ball
The Iliad / int_1fffdf05	comment	Advantage Ball: The battle goes this way and that, depending on which side the gods are currently favoring. The advantage is indicated by one side's champions being temporarily invincible: first Diomedes, then Hector, and finally Achilles.
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The Iliad / int_21b5f849	type	My Name Is Inigo Montoya
The Iliad / int_21b5f849	comment	My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Warriors like to introduces themselves to their opponents.
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The Iliad / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
The Iliad / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: When Paris strides out yelling if any of the Achaeans will challenge him, Menelaus unsurprisingly is eager to accept it - and then Paris just steps back behind the Trojans' ranks until Hector berates him and gets him to agree to a Combat by Champion.
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The Iliad / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Iliad / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The Roman Horace wrote the Trope Namer pointing out the fact that the Iliad starts in the middle of the war.
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The Iliad / int_253daa59	type	Multiple-Choice Future
The Iliad / int_253daa59	comment	Multiple-Choice Future: Achilles' mother knew that he could either live a brief but glorious life as a hero or a long life of I Coulda Been a Contender!. While she tries her best to steer him towards the latter by disguising him as a girl, it doesn't work, and when she sees how easily he takes to the warrior's life she realizes she would rather he be happy rather than miserable for the rest of his days, so she stops trying to keep him safe.
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The Iliad / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Iliad / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Incorporates both armour and fighting styles from Homer's own time and elements of Mycenean warfare from centuries earlier.
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The Iliad / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
The Iliad / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: Andromache is working on clothes for Hector when she hears of his death.
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The Iliad / int_2902d076	type	Support Party Member
The Iliad / int_2902d076	comment	Support Party Member: At one point Poseidon gets around Zeus' ban on participating by going around giving a Rousing Speech. The narration actually credits him with the Greeks not fleeing to the ships.
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The Iliad / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Iliad / int_2a090d00	comment	Two of the Achaean leaders are named Ajax, or Aias (they even have a collective name — the Aiantes â€” which seems to be an example of ancient lampshading).
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The Iliad / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Iliad / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Hector names three Achaian warriors he'd rather not fight: Diomedes, Ajax the Great, and Agamemnon. The latter shows why during book 11, when he single-handedly drives the Trojans back to the walls.
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The Iliad / int_2ceee1dc	type	Head-Turning Beauty
The Iliad / int_2ceee1dc	comment	Head-Turning Beauty: Helen of Troy turns heads wherever she goes.
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The Iliad / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
The Iliad / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: Apollo, while in the guise of one of Hector's friends, tries to rile him up by accusing him of being "in fight a Paris".
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The Iliad / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
The Iliad / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: The Iliad is an epic poem, not a myth. It also does not contain many well-known events in The Trojan War, such as the Trojan Horse, the death of Achilles, the theft of the Palladium, the fall of Troy, etc. Some of these events are mentioned in The Odyssey, but we've lost the other epics from the The Trojan Cycle that actually deal with these episodes. Some colorful additions (like Achilles' Achilles' Heel) come from sources much later.
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The Iliad / int_2f57a4cb	type	Divine Intervention
The Iliad / int_2f57a4cb	comment	Divine Intervention: If a god doesn't stick their oar into the battle to help a favorite or harm a favorite's enemy at least once, it's not the Iliad. Special mention goes to Aeneas, whose bacon keeps getting saved by even gods who hate Troy, because he's so pious and because he has a destiny to fulfill.
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The Iliad / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Iliad / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Agamemnon becomes exponentially funnier if you view him as a Helen/Menelaus shipper. It's not even inaccurate.
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The Iliad / int_33d76f78	type	Heroic Ambidexterity
The Iliad / int_33d76f78	comment	Heroic Ambidexterity: The Trojan Asteropaeus throws both his spears at once, "for both his arms were as his right", when he faces off against Achilles. One of the spears hits Achilles in the arm, making Asteropaeus the first Trojan to give Achilles a wound. Nevertheless Asteropaeus is slain in the ensuing sword-fight.
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The Iliad / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Iliad / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: All the heroes are nobles, and the battles are all decided by how well they fight each other.
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The Iliad / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
The Iliad / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: Priam tells his surviving sons he wishes they all had died instead of Hector.
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The Iliad / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Iliad / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Agamemnon not only refuses to ransom Chryseis back to her father, but tells him she'll be his Sex Slave into her old age. After killing Patroclus and stripping his body, Hector not only refuses to hand it over for burial but gloats that he will cut off his head and stick it on a spike for Achilles to see just to spite him. Even the aforementioned Jerkass Ball on Hector's part does not excuse Achilles' dragging of his body behind his, Achilles', chariot.
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The Iliad / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Iliad / int_362461f6	comment	Agamemnon not only refuses to ransom Chryseis back to her father, but tells him she'll be his Sex Slave into her old age.
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The Iliad / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Iliad / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Odysseus (Greek), and Polydamas (Trojan) for their respective armies.
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The Iliad / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Iliad / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: All the characters have their moments actually, but Achilles really takes the cake (outside of the Jerkass Gods that is).
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The Iliad / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Iliad / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Helen is kidnapped and has a war waged over her for her beauty.
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The Iliad / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Iliad / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Homer's audience would have been very familiar with the myths behind the story, and known how it all ended. The fact that the Trojans are doomed to lose is known even by Hector himself. Even if the audience doesn't know beforehand, Zeus explains midway through what's going to happen in the rest of the epic.
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The Iliad / int_3be94971	type	Glory Seeker
The Iliad / int_3be94971	comment	Glory Seeker: Most of the named combatants seem to seek gaining lasting glory.
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The Iliad / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Iliad / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: When Achilles asks his mother to intercede toward Zeus, she boasts that she owes him since the time she prevented the other Olympians from dethroning him and sent Briareus the Hundred-Hander to help him. She doesn't provide many details, and this story is only mentioned here.
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The Iliad / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
The Iliad / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: In the chapter where Hephaestus makes Achilles a new suit of armor, roughly three-quarters of the chapter is devoted to detailed descriptions of the ornamental engravings on the shield. The rest of the armor is made in one page.
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The Iliad / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Iliad / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: There's a lot of loving descriptions of armor, particularly Agamemnon's figured breastplate.
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The Iliad / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Iliad / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: The prophecy that the newborn Alexandros/Paris would grow up to bring doom to Troy. Thus, The Trojan War and everything connected with it worked out that way because of destiny. Additionally, there were several ways to save Troy. Various prophecies stated that if so and so was alive on the Trojan side, or so and so did not fight on the Greek side, then Troy would never fall. Needless to say the Greeks took care of all of those. When Zeus broaches the idea that the war could end without further bloodshed after Paris defaults on the duel with Menelaus, Hera and Athena dismiss it on this basis.
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The Iliad / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Iliad / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Early on, in preparation for an attack, Agamemnon tests the Greeks' fighting spirit by saying, in short, "We'll never take Troy; let's pack up and go home." The leaders then have to stop their troops from following through.
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The Iliad / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Iliad / int_401d4116	comment	Solve conflicts through words and compromise, not violence or insult. Becomes more obvious in the penultimate book where we see several altercations (e.g. Ajax vs. Idomeneus, Antilochus vs. Achilles, Antilochus vs. Menelaus) over prizes in the Funeral Games that mirror Achilles and Agamemnon's initial argument but are settled peaceably. While this may seem something of a Broken Aesop as the setting is an enormous war, it's worth noting that if the Trojans had returned Helen and apologized at the beginning, they probably wouldn't have gotten their whole city destroyed.
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The Iliad / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Iliad / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal! and/or Shut Up, Kirk!: Several characters respond to their opponents' pre-duel Badass Boasts by telling them to shut up and hit someone. This being Homer, they take several pages to say that.
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The Iliad / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
The Iliad / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Trope Codifier. The entire plot happens because people just don't stop to think before they act. Paris especially is guilty of this, and Homer all but mentions the trope by name in the first lines (see page quote).
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The Iliad / int_439e5a4f	type	Epic Catalog
The Iliad / int_439e5a4f	comment	Epic Catalog: The most famous is the Catalogue of Ships in Book 2, some 250 lines just listing all the Greek commanders and how many ships each one brought from his domains.
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The Iliad / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
The Iliad / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Helen, the Trope Namer (as well as the Trope Codifier).
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The Iliad / int_443774b4	type	Narrative Poem
The Iliad / int_443774b4	comment	Narrative Poem: Not quite the Ur-Example...
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The Iliad / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
The Iliad / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Characters constantly bring up that the fight between Agamemnon and Achilles is pointless, and has caused both of them much grief. Agamemnon himself admits that he was the first to transgress, and wishes he had never done so. The Trojans and their allies blame Paris for their misfortunes, and even wish that he had died so as to forestall his taking Helen from Sparta. Some go so far as to wish that he had never been born in the first place so he couldn't have caused any problems.
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The Iliad / int_44e06bb6	type	Boisterous Weakling
The Iliad / int_44e06bb6	comment	Boisterous Weakling: Paris calls out the Achaeans, spoiling for a fight, only to promptly flee when someone (Menelaus) actually answers him.
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The Iliad / int_46189c48	type	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
The Iliad / int_46189c48	comment	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes: Even Badass Normal types can chuck around boulders that two men of "today" wouldn't even be able to lift.
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The Iliad / int_4660f594	type	Lover, Not a Fighter
The Iliad / int_4660f594	comment	Lover, Not a Fighter: Paris is known for stealing Helen and being a poor fighter.
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The Iliad / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Iliad / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: This was a story by men, for men, about being manly men.
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The Iliad / int_4e6cb27f	type	Rambling Old Man Monologue
The Iliad / int_4e6cb27f	comment	Rambling Old Man Monologue: Nestor loves to talk, regaling Patroclus with a lengthy story of his youth in between lecturing him about going along with Achilles' inaction.
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The Iliad / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Iliad / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Ajax Telamonean, who is called Greater Ajax for a reason. He's the biggest soldier among the Greek forces (his shield is described as being like a tower) and judged second only to Achilles in fighting strength. Sarpedon seems to play a similar role on the Trojan side. Both are pretty decent guys.
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The Iliad / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Iliad / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution is only for the Jerkass Gods. Human beings must not engage in it, because The Moirae gave humans a patient heart, capable of enduring all the pain. Indeed, Achilles' wrath is only explainable because he was the son of a goddess.
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The Iliad / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
The Iliad / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Several characters are mentioned to be holding two spears at once, or one spear and one sword.
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The Iliad / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Iliad / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After throwing a rock at Cebriones and causing him to backflip out of his chariot, Patroclus remarks that he'd make a good oyster diver. This being The Iliad, it's a bit longer than one line.
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The Iliad / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Iliad / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Iliad begins and ends with a father offering a ransom for his child('s body) that is initially refused but eventually accepted.
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The Iliad / int_53968093	type	Wet Blanket Wife
The Iliad / int_53968093	comment	Wet Blanket Wife: In book 6, Andromache tries to dissuade her husband Hector from returning to combat: "Nay, Hector, thou art to me father and queenly mother, thou art brother, and thou art my stalwart husband. Come now, have pity, and remain here on the wall, lest thou make thy child an orphan and thy wife a widow."
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The Iliad / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
The Iliad / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: Achilles, making this form of Straw Nihilist Older Than Feudalism. He gets an absolutely epic rant about how life and the heroic code are meaningless, and they're all going to die and be forgotten anyway. He goes so far as to wish everyone but himself and Patroclus dead.
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The Iliad / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
The Iliad / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Notably, despite the fact that she was taken as a war prize by Achilles, Agamemnon has to swear that he did not sleep with Briseis when giving her back to Achilles. In another point against him, Paris does not defend Helen when others accuse her of this. Helen laments in her Due to the Dead that Hector was the one doing that.
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The Iliad / int_5876fa2d	type	Inverse Dialogue Death Rule
The Iliad / int_5876fa2d	comment	Inverse Dialogue/Death Rule: Although scores of heroes die during the epic's pages, most of them die without so much as a word before eating dust. However, the most pivotal death in the book, Patroclus' killing by Hector, has a long final speech by the victim, in which Patroclus warns Hector of his impeding death.
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The Iliad / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Iliad / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Achilles after Patroclus' death — he's right.
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The Iliad / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
The Iliad / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Achilles and, to the surprise of anyone familiar with the various adaptations, Agamemnon. Seriously, read his rampage in Book 11. It screams Unstoppable Rage. Diomedes goes pretty berserk in Book 5, taking Aeneas, Aphrodite, and Ares, the god of war himself, out of battle, and killing quite a few dozen men. Not even the gods can rein him in. He had some help from Athena, though. However, he is shown to be a very good strategist and very cunning, knowing when to back off in battle, making him not a completely straight example of this trope.
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The Iliad / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Iliad / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Rage/Wrath. The whole story is about the violent rage of Achilles, but it is also worth noting that the vast majority of conflicts in the story are solved with violence and aggression, and that an equal number of problems are solved with peaceful debate and have no consequences.
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The Iliad / int_5e1ecc50	type	Mistaken for Badass
The Iliad / int_5e1ecc50	comment	Mistaken for Badass: When Zeus takes part in the struggle — sending his thunder to signify his support for the Trojans — the Greeks turn en masse and flee back to their boats. Nestor is the only one who stays on the field, and seeing him alone before the Trojans inspires Diomedes to turn back and return to the fray to assist him. However, Nestor hadn't wanted to stay: heâ€™s stuck because one of his horses has been wounded and he canâ€™t control them.
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The Iliad / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
The Iliad / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: Homer returns to this idea repeatedly, expressing it through a metaphor likening human beings to leaves as autumn approaches.
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The Iliad / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
The Iliad / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: One of the more famous examples in literature. Paris steals Helen (and a lot of treasure) while he's a guest in her and Menelaus' home. While the act has plenty of political ramifications, it's the breach of hospitality that causes such an uproar, and is used to rouse the entire army of Greece to sack Troy in response. Diomedes and Glaucos hold off from killing each other, decide they'll mutually avoid each other, and exchange armor... because one's grandfather had been the guest of the other.
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The Iliad / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
The Iliad / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: While it's unknown what the author(s) intended in writing the Iliad, Achilles and Patroclus' relationship sometimes goes beyond platonic in some translations. The Lombardo version, for example, has Achilles calling Patroclus "mine" and "my beloved several times".
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The Iliad / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Iliad / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Patroclus to Achilles, either Aeneas or Polydamas to Hector.
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The Iliad / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
The Iliad / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Mostly averted, as Greek culture didn't look down on crying as unmanly, but played straight in book 16, when the crabby Achilles asks Patroclus why he's crying, comparing him to a blubbering baby girl begging for her mama.
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The Iliad / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
The Iliad / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Played with. Oddly enough, whether a warrior's armor protects him or not depends on how much Plot Armor he has; in a sense, the real armor is used as a Handwave for Plot Armor.
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The Iliad / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
The Iliad / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: Most of the time a warrior will attempt to strip the armor of a slain enemy as a keepsake, even in the midst of battle. Sometimes this results in a fight over either the armor or the body. The most dramatic example occurs after Hector kills Patroclus and takes the armor he was wearing, and which originally belonged to Achilles. Meanwhile, the Greeks manage to recover Patroclus' body and return it to friendly lines for burial.
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The Iliad / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Iliad / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Many times. The most famous example being between Achilles and King Priam when Priam begs Achilles to return the body of his son Hector for burial. Priam's passion moves Achilles who begins thinking about his lost friend Patroclus and his own aged father back in Greece, who will soon lose his son; and the two men weep together over their loss.
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The Iliad / int_66c725b6	type	Inconsistent Spelling
The Iliad / int_66c725b6	comment	Inconsistent Spelling: Achilles/Akhilleus, Patroclus/Patroklos, Hector/Hektor, Ajax/Aias, Helen/Helene, Teucer/Teukros, Clytemestra/Klytaimnestra. During the ages, the text has gone through editing, transliteration, translation, and adaptation for poetic purposes: it's not surprising that there are variants of the main characters' names. Romanized vs. original Greek names is a big contributor.
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The Iliad / int_674e8192	type	Blind Obedience
The Iliad / int_674e8192	comment	Blind Obedience: The Myrmidons that Achilles commanded. When he goes all Achilles in His Tent, this prevents the Greeks from getting their aid in battle as well. The Myrmidons were said to be so diligent and unquestioning of orders that their name was used as describe someone as being virtually robotic in how they obeyed commands. This probably stemmed from their ancestors being said to be ants turned into humans being, as ants seem to be quite single-minded to observers.
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The Iliad / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Iliad / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Achilles. Agamemnon as well.
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The Iliad / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
The Iliad / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: The duel between Menelaus and Paris looks a fair bit like this—Paris is obviously a downright bad fighter, while Menelaus is mentioned to be a pretty mediocre one. Both of Menelaus's attacks fail to cause any damage and leave him unarmed, and he eventually resorts to just grabbing Paris by his helmet-crest and dragging him around. Paris is too wimpy to fight back at all.
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The Iliad / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Iliad / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Agamemnon, elder brother to Menelaus, leads the forces to win back his brother's wife. He pulls back Menelaus from volunteering to fight Hector and strongly hints to Diomedes that he should pick someone else to go spy on the Trojans with him.
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The Iliad / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
The Iliad / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: Set during the Greek Bronze Age and although the actual date of composition was debated, it was at least a few hundred years later.
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The Iliad / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Iliad / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Everybody, but most noticeably Achilles and Agamemnon, who seem to be at their best when enraged.
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The Iliad / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Iliad / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Agamemnon, "very steadfast". Priam(os), "exceptionally courageous", which he proves to be. Another etymology is "ransomed" which fits both with his own backstory and with his later actions in the Iliad. Diomedes, "Cunning of God", which makes sense since he is the favored warrior of Athena and is an accomplice of Odysseus, as well as the one with most battle experience out of all the Greek warriors, next to Nestor. Achilles, whose name some believe derives from akhos, a Greek word for "grief". Achilles is famous for his wrath, but it's his grief that motivates him to his greatest deeds. One particular interpretation is that the second part of his name comes from laos, "people" or "army." As the very first lines of the poem speak of the grievous losses that his anger brings on his own people, "the grief of his people" is an apt name.
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The Iliad / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
The Iliad / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: This was a common aspect of oral tradition at the time, partially because most epics would have to be recited over several days or more, meaning it was easy for people to forget things that had happened early in the story. It also helps in memorizing the story. The dream Zeus sends Agamemnon in book 2 is written out no less than three times, and nearly word-for-word: when Zeus describes what it will be, when dream!Nestor relays this message, and when Agamemnon relays this message to the war council. The bribe for Achilles in Book Nine is repeated. That's two pages of walls of text there.
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The Iliad / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Iliad / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Troy was always going to fall. Several routs are credited as being "the gods don't want us to win this one", and is actually true. Zeus himself has to be told this by other gods, first when he proposes that the conflict could be settled peacefully after Paris forfeits the duel and again when he wants to avert the death of his son Sarpedon.
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The Iliad / int_7270820d	type	Javelin Thrower
The Iliad / int_7270820d	comment	Javelin Thrower: Heroes are frequently described making mighty javelin throws in battle, and javelin-throwing is also mentioned as a sporting contest. The trope doesnâ€™t entirely take its later form, though; these are mighty hand-to-hand warriors who can also hurl a mean javelin, not just hit-and-run fighters.
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The Iliad / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Iliad / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The 2009 edition of Samuel Butler's 1898 translation from Arcturus features the 1785 oil on canvas painting "The Death of Priam" by Jean-Baptiste Regnault as the cover image. Priam's death is an episode of the Trojan War that happened after the Iliad and thus does not feature in the story.
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The Iliad / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Iliad / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Very much so. While largely centering on the Greek point of view, the Trojans are also described largely as noble, especially Hector.
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The Iliad / int_73f51de7	type	Jerkass Ball
The Iliad / int_73f51de7	comment	Even the aforementioned Jerkass Ball on Hector's part does not excuse Achilles' dragging of his body behind his, Achilles', chariot.
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The Iliad / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
The Iliad / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: Humans are Cosmic Playthings, but the Gods know that Troy will fall, because The Moirae ordained it. However, they are constantly quarreling between them trying to help his favorite side, to save / to kill his favorite / unfavorite warrior, manipulating and insulting each other, and making fun of humans. (Apollo fools Achilles to save many Trojan warriors, and then reveals himself and brags Achilles cannot do anything to him. Achilles curses him in vain, and goes to kill more Trojans). On numerous occasions various gods are shown not bothering to do the things which are basically their job to do until somebody bribes them with the promise of an expensive offering.
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The Iliad / int_76dc3807	type	Alone in a Crowd
The Iliad / int_76dc3807	comment	Alone in a Crowd: Helen very much feels this way in Troy. The women barely tolerate her and only Hector and Priam are actually kind. Paris is no consolation, Helen seems to have come to despise him.
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The Iliad / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Iliad / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: A few of the heroes, including Teucer, are mentioned to be illegitimate of birth.
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The Iliad / int_7b39c3d8	type	El Cid Ploy
The Iliad / int_7b39c3d8	comment	El Cid Ploy: When Achilles refuses to fight and stays in his tent on account of his grudge against Agamenon, the Trojans feel encouraged and seem to get the upper hand on the Greeks. Eventually Patroclus contrives to join the battle dressed up in Achilles' armor in order to intimidate the Trojans and boost the Greeks' morale. However, the ploy fails because everyone recognizes Patroclus, and Patroclus is killed in battle by Hector.
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The Iliad / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Iliad / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hector stays outside to face Achilles because he fears receiving this for his tactical misjudgement.
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The Iliad / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Iliad / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: A couple of people get beheaded. At least once, it's done with a stone. In the entirety of Book 17 Hector tries to decapitate Patroclus' corpse.
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The Iliad / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Iliad / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: Roughly a tenth of the word count is devoted to descriptions of the lineages and deeds of various minor characters who die on the next page, if not sooner.
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The Iliad / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Iliad / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: So many. Hector being probably the most outward example.
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The Iliad / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Iliad / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Hector foresees this fate for Andromache and all the women of Troy. It has already been the fate of the women of neighboring cities and allies. It also happens to men on occasion, as Achilles has sold some of his prisoners overseas instead of ransoming them.
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The Iliad / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
The Iliad / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: Charioteers in this story tend to have the life expectancy of an asthmatic mayfly. Hector loses two in one battle when people aim at him and miss, with their deaths described using identical phrasing, and the third is killed by Patroclus not long after. Which makes Automedon holding his own in a fight against Hector of all people and surviving all the more badass. Then again, Automedon isn't just any charioteer, he's Achilles' charioteer, so he's Badass by association.
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The Iliad / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Iliad / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Aeneas. Just as Diomedes is about to kill him, the gods save his life and declare that after the war, he shall be the leader of all future Trojans. He's rarely mentioned again, and then only in passing. 800 years later, Virgil decided to make this a Brick Joke.
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The Iliad / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Iliad / int_86b21114	comment	Glaucos manages to include a recap of the myth of Bellerophon during his Badass Boast to Diomedes.
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The Iliad / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
The Iliad / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: Glaucus has gilded armor, which he gives to Diomedes. Agamemnon has a breastplate decorated with bands of gold, tin and cobalt, and a silver sword belt. He and several others have swords with hilts decorated in silver. The armour and equipment Hephaistos makes for Achilles. Just the description of the shield is more than a hundred lines long.
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The Iliad / int_8a164766	type	Never Got to Say Goodbye
The Iliad / int_8a164766	comment	Never Got to Say Goodbye: Inverted, as Andromache mourns that the nature of Hector's death meant she never got to hear any last words from him.
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The Iliad / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Iliad / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Can be seen as one of the first, given its emphasis on the stupidity of the heroic code, and the damage that it causes to those who try and live up to it.
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The Iliad / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Iliad / int_8b606a51	comment	One of the more famous examples in literature. Paris steals Helen (and a lot of treasure) while he's a guest in her and Menelaus' home. While the act has plenty of political ramifications, it's the breach of hospitality that causes such an uproar, and is used to rouse the entire army of Greece to sack Troy in response.
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The Iliad / int_8cf75a5c	type	Lipstick-and-Load Montage
The Iliad / int_8cf75a5c	comment	Lipstick-and-Load Montage: In Book XIV, Hera embarks on a long dress-up scene with lots of ambrosia and fancy clothes in preparation to distract Zeus from manipulating the outcome of a battle. Classicists have described it as an "arming scene" analogous to those of the mortal warriors like Achilles.
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The Iliad / int_8ec5beed	type	Forging Scene
The Iliad / int_8ec5beed	comment	Forging Scene: Thetis gets Hephaestus to forge armor for Achilles.
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The Iliad / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
The Iliad / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: Apparently the norm between the Greek warriors and their captive women. The latter are invariably depicted as resigned, submissive, and in some cases affectionate towards their captor. Briseis weeps pitifully at being parted from Achilles and he claims to love her and calls her his wife.
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The Iliad / int_91b5521d	type	Complete Immortality
The Iliad / int_91b5521d	comment	Complete Immortality: When Achilles tries to fight Apollo, Apollo taunts him by pointing out that as a god, he is fated to never die and therefore cannot be killed.
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The Iliad / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Iliad / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Inevitable, given that everybody is introduced as I Am X, Son of Y. Thetis has it worst, as she knows it's going to happen and can't prevent it.
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The Iliad / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
The Iliad / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: When she gets her hand speared by Diomedes, Aphrodite proves herself to be quite the Momma's Girl. Achilles. When Agamemnon takes Briseis this famous hero goes down to the sea shore and cries for his mother.
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The Iliad / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Iliad / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: After Patroclus is killed and the Trojans try to claim his body in Book 17, the Greeks collectively feel that it would be better to have the earth swallow them up than to go back to the Greek camp and tell Achilles that they lost Patroclusâ€™s body to the Trojans.
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The Iliad / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Iliad / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Telamonian Ajax's duel with Hector can be seen as this. The duel is ended before it becomes decisive; but when it is halted, Ajax is clearly at an advantage. Among the Achaeans, many could boast of being the 2nd greatest, but it's routinely acknowledged that Achilles is THE greatest among them. If Hector, greatest among the Trojans, struggles with Ajax, how can he hope to beat Achilles?
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The Iliad / int_a0bfddf0	type	Real Men Eat Meat
The Iliad / int_a0bfddf0	comment	Real Men Eat Meat: Usually an ox or pig slaughtered for the purpose. With a detailed description of being cut up, put on skewers, and roasted.
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The Iliad / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
The Iliad / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Sarpedon and Patroclus get these.
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The Iliad / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Iliad / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: After Agamemnon dishonors him, Achilles doesn't care a fig about The Trojan War until his buddy gets killed.
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The Iliad / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
The Iliad / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: When Hera seduces Zeus, he compares her attractiveness to the other women he's slept with. The original Greek version has this last 20 lines.
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The Iliad / int_a211f531	type	Shields Are Useless
The Iliad / int_a211f531	comment	Shields Are Useless: Played with. Some spears actually not only penetrate shields, but also skewer their owners. On the other hand, Telamonian Ajax's 8-layered shield (7 ox-hides on a bronze base) and Achilles' 7-layered metal shield Forged By Hephaestus are never penetrated in the epic.
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The Iliad / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Iliad / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: More than one character gets their eyes bashed out.
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The Iliad / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Iliad / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: When Hera seduces Zeus, he creates a cloud for a little privacy.
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The Iliad / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Iliad / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Proper respect towards corpses is very important in The Iliad. Fights over corpses are common, with the fallen man's allies striving to give the corpse a proper burial and the enemy refusing to give it back. There are also occasional truces to allow both sides to recover their dead.
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The Iliad / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
The Iliad / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Proving this trope Older Than Feudalism, Homer does correctly realize that Mycenaean Greeks preferred using chariots in battle, rather than the modern-at-the-time hoplite warfare. However, many historians believe that he was inexperienced with how chariots tended to be used in battle; unsurprising since they had fallen into disuse by then.
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The Iliad / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
The Iliad / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Many warriors are instantly killed by injuries to the belly or other wounds that, while probably lethal in a pre-medicine world, would take some time for their sufferers to succumb.
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The Iliad / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Iliad / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Helen of Troy, who got that name — in the English-speaking world — after being abducted by a Trojan prince. Almost nobody calls her "Helen of Sparta."
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The Iliad / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
The Iliad / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: Quite a lot, to the modern mind at least. Poetic descriptions are interposed with nasty, detailed descriptions of what close combat death and wounds really look like. There is a famous scene when Andromake suggests that Hector fight from the relative safety of the walls instead, pointing out the she is a stranger in the city and neither she nor their son has anyone else to rely on if Hector dies. He declines, tries to hug his child, but the child is terrified not recognizing his father in the scary helmet. He takes off the helmet, and says something like: "Gods if I have ever pleased you, now hear my prayer: let my son grow up to be a great man so that the people say he is greater than his father." To the modern mind the continuation is a brutal dissonance to the previous cuteness and family values, to the Greeks it was probably natural. "And let him come home safely from combat with the bloody armor of his slain enemy as a spoil of victory and make his mummy glad." Hector does not mention himself in this wish for his son's future. He probably does not expect to live to see it.
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The Iliad / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Iliad / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: When Aeneas challenges Achilles, the latter taunts him, asking if he thinks this fight will win him enough glory to become the next king even though Priam already has sons. Of course, as the gods point out afterwards to each other, Aeneas is going to be king, because Priam and his sons are all going to be slaughtered by the Achaians.
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The Iliad / int_ab88f865	type	Traumatic C-Section
The Iliad / int_ab88f865	comment	Traumatic C-Section: Agamemnon scolds his brother Menelaus for showing mercy to a Trojan:
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The Iliad / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Iliad / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Achilles' is his wrath and pettiness. It is so prevalent that he refuses Agamemnon's offer to return Briseis as a bribe to get Achilles to fight again. Even after he suffers the consequences of his action in Patroclus' death, he simply redirects his anger from Agamemnon to Hector, instead of realizing that Patroclus' death is primarily his fault and learning his lesson. His wrath does not abate until Priam makes him realize that Hector and Priam's situation mirrors Achilles and Peleus, and he is finally able to empathize with his enemy. Agamemnon's is his pride. His refusal to initially realize that his treatment of Achilles is unfair leads to his army's near defeat, although this consequence pales in comparison to Achilles' and Hector's. He does later realize the foolishness of this action, but never admits any blame or apologizes. Hector's is overconfidence and refusal to listen to advice. Unlike Achilles and Agamemnon, Hector finally realizes what his flaw is, but not until it's too late and his Tragic Mistake has already been made. Of the three, Hector experiences the worst consequences for his actions. Not only does his flaw inevitably lead to a terrible but also avoidable defeat of the Trojan army at the hands of Achilles, his attempt to redeem himself ultimately leads to his death, his body is desecrated, his city is burned, his newborn son thrown from the city walls, and his wife becomes the Sex Slave of his slayer's son. Averted with Diomedes, as he is said to be the perfect embodiment of a Greek Hero, without a fatal flaw. Although after the Iliad his wounding Aphrodite comes to bite him in the back.
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The Iliad / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
The Iliad / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Goes with the territory for epic poetry, but often characters have huge monologues even in the middle of battles. Lampshaded when both Odysseus and Menelaus ask, "Why am I talking to myself like this?" during their speeches.
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The Iliad / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
The Iliad / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: Everyone who dies is named, even if they appear just in that scene. As an ancient Greek would have known what kind of effort and expense multiple people had to make to bring every single warrior to the battle, this was a quick and effective way to make the readers realize that War Is Hell.
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The Iliad / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Iliad / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Every one of the Trojans does this when they see Achilles, including Hector. Every one of the Greeks does this when they see Hector except for Ajax, Patroclus, Automedon, Diomedes and Achilles. The Greeks also collectively have this when Patroclus dies, and Hector makes his intentions known to desecrate his corpse. As there was a very real fear that Achilles would kill everyone (both the Trojans and the Greeks) if Hector did this, the Greeks mobilized to get Patroclusâ€™s body back to the Greek camp before this can happen.
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The Iliad / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Iliad / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Achilles asks Zeus to help the Trojans punish the Greeks, which ends in his friend Patroclus' death fighting the empowered Trojans.
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The Iliad / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
The Iliad / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Everyone, but especially Hector. Eventually, battles come down to a sort of game of divine poker, with characters guessing which side has Zeus' favor every so often.
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The Iliad / int_b179eb00	type	Tragic Bromance
The Iliad / int_b179eb00	comment	Tragic Bromance: Achilles and Patroclus.
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The Iliad / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
The Iliad / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Hector and Polydamas, Greater Ajax and Teucer, Odysseus and Diomedes in Book 10.
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The Iliad / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
The Iliad / int_b333f02e	comment	Patroclus calls Achilles out on his stubborness over his wounded honor instead of fighting the Trojans.
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The Iliad / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
The Iliad / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: From Book 1 when Athena has to come down from the heavens to stop Achilles from killing Agamemnon.
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The Iliad / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Iliad / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Achilles abandons his duties just because Agamemnon took his captive Briseis. This is not because he cares about her as he already has other captives and still refuses to return when Agamemnom offer Briseis and many extensive gifts, this is just because Agamemnon hurt his pride (when he's told that Agamemnon hasn't slept with Briseis, he replies that he might as well start). He goes as far to ask Zeus via his mother to favor the Trojans.
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The Iliad / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Iliad / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Most of the heroes would fall into this category by modern standards, as they're able to speak eloquently and have erudite conversations with each other despite being supreme badasses. The Greeks valued wit and intelligence as much as martial ability. However, the stand-out is obviously Odysseus, favored of Athena, who has the well-earned reputation as the most clever hero. Polydamas (as badass Hector's Foil) is also up there.
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The Iliad / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Iliad / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The Trojans could have just given Helen back to avoid total annihilation, but this would have made a lousy story. The Trojans are actually ready to do this after Menelaus beats Paris in their duel, but Hera refuses to countenance any solution that doesn't involve Troy being destroyed and Athena influences an archer on the Trojan side to shoot at Menelaus before the truce is ended, thereby restarting the war.
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The Iliad / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Iliad / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: On the other hand, Achilles is the father of Pyrrhus with Deidamie and both he and Patroclus enjoy sex with Lesbian slaves (as in native from Lesbos) in one scene.
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The Iliad / int_bd39588d	type	Desecrating the Dead
The Iliad / int_bd39588d	comment	Desecrating the Dead: Achilles slays the Trojan warrior Hector for killing his much-loved cousin and best friend (and probably lover) Patrocles. After doing so, he ties Hector's body to the back of his chariot and races around the Trojan beach, proclaiming Greek superiority to Troy for twelve days and twelve nights. The Trojans do get their revenge, though, and even the Gods themselves eventually get offended by Achilles's actions — it is the involvement of the Gods that prevents Hector's corpse from being further mutilated, and the end of the Iliad involves Hector getting a proper burial by the Trojans. In general, all heroes habitually strip their victims of their armour the moment they kill them.
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The Iliad / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Iliad / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Early on, Helen gives Aphrodite a piece of her mind. Aphrodite puts her in her place shortly afterward, but damn, girl!
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The Iliad / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Iliad / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: At the time of the tale's origin, Achilles was perhaps less of an antihero, but due to Values Dissonance, many readers see Achilles as a colossal Jerkass and are more sympathetic to Hector, who is not a nice guy either.
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The Iliad / int_becf7306	type	Dead Sidekick
The Iliad / int_becf7306	comment	Dead Sidekick: Patroclus is Achilles' sidekick and gets killed, driving Achilles' actions thereon.
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The Iliad / int_bedae243	type	Relative Button
The Iliad / int_bedae243	comment	Relative Button: Hector does not take kindly to having two of his half-brothers killed.
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The Iliad / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Iliad / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The end of the second book is deemed as jarring by some as the author starts to talk in the first person and invokes the Muses to aid his memory.
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The Iliad / int_bf780240	type	Boy Meets Ghoul
The Iliad / int_bf780240	comment	Boy Meets Ghoul: Achilles meets Patroclos's ghost and wants to have sex with him. In other myths concerning the Trojan War he falls in love with the Amazon queen when he has just killed her.
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The Iliad / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Iliad / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Odysseus and Diomedes were on a night raid and captured the hapless but useful Dolon. Bad cop Diomedes says to stand still or die. Good cop Odysseus says, "Fear not, let no thought of death be in your mind." It goes on like that for awhile until Diomedes "struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking."
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The Iliad / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Iliad / int_c2c92862	comment	In another point against him, Paris does not defend Helen when others accuse her of this. Helen laments in her Due to the Dead that Hector was the one doing that.
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The Iliad / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Iliad / int_c39846a3	comment	Agamemnon's is his pride. His refusal to initially realize that his treatment of Achilles is unfair leads to his army's near defeat, although this consequence pales in comparison to Achilles' and Hector's. He does later realize the foolishness of this action, but never admits any blame or apologizes.
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The Iliad / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Iliad / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The Greeks and Trojans nearly get everything settled with a single combat between Paris and Menelaus, and agree to a truce while the two fight it out. However, when the gods realize the war is going to end sooner and with a lot less mess than they'd planned, Athena eggs a Trojan into breaking the truce and the fighting starts all over again. The Trojans almost defeat the Greeks and burn the ships.
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The Iliad / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Iliad / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Achilles kills a dozen Trojan prisoners to throw on Patroclus's funeral pyre.
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The Iliad / int_c6d6ed88	type	Long-Lasting Last Words
The Iliad / int_c6d6ed88	comment	Long-Lasting Last Words: Hector delivers a 500 line monologue after being stabbed in the neck. Homer makes sure to mention that the spear didn't sever his windpipe, just to facilitate this.
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The Iliad / int_c8e375d3	type	Lover and Beloved
The Iliad / int_c8e375d3	comment	Lover and Beloved: Achilles and Patroclus aren't explicitly a gay couple (though they are frequently considered so), but due to erastes and eromenos being a social norm in 5th century Greece, people of that time argued which one was which since they did not fit neatly with the dynamic - Achilles is the younger one of the two and Patroclus trained him before the war, but Achilles is also the more skillful and directing of the two. Plato's Symposium even has a character (Phaedrus) laying out the argument that Achilles was the eromenos.
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The Iliad / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Iliad / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: A lot of people. Including Ares.
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The Iliad / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
The Iliad / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: One of the biggest signs of Paris's uselessness is his comparative lack of epithets — while everyone else gets "man-killer", "brilliant", or "leader of men", the only epithets Paris receives refer to his good looks and his birth, suggesting they're all he has going for him.
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The Iliad / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Iliad / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In books five and six, Diomedes goes on a god-stabbing rampage. First he slashes Aphrodite's arm when she tries to rescue Aeneas. Apollo picks up the baton and is forced to repel three attacks by Diomedes before using his divine don't-mess-with-the-gods voice to tell him to back off. The wounded Aphrodite meanwhile runs and tattles to her lover, Ares, the god of slaughter; he promptly arrives to lay down the law. Instead, he gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Diomedes's spear, causing him to howl in agony "with the voices of a thousand men" and run to his daddy. Diomedes becomes the only mortal to injure two gods in a single day. Some scholars believes that this whole episode pre-dates The Iliad, and Homer lumped it into his own epic. During his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Achilles beats down the local river god while crossing it, but almost gets drowned in the process and has to be rescued by the god Hephaestus. And in this same scene, some random Dual Wielding Trojan becomes probably the first person in history to draw blood from Achilles. When Achilles is ready for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Zeus announces to the Gods that he must personally intervene because Achilles is so angry that he will likely prove Fate wrong and conquer Troy on his own!
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The Iliad / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
The Iliad / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: Hundreds die in the Iliad, but only about four have any emotional import.
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The Iliad / int_ce9da072	type	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
The Iliad / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Though at least it is more realistic than dactylic hexameter!
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The Iliad / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Iliad / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Achilles loses it when Patroclus bites the dust. A strong contender for the Ur-Example.
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The Iliad / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Iliad / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Played straight with the actual Cassandra in the myth as a whole and Polydamas' advice in the actual book. This trope's notable subversion by the Greeks, either by accident or actually heeding the advice of their resident prophet Calchas is what leads to their victory.
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The Iliad / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Iliad / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Patroclus calls Achilles out on his stubborness over his wounded honor instead of fighting the Trojans. Paris is such a Jerkass that Helen doesn't mention him in any meaningful way over her half-page of grieving over Hector. She doesn't even name him as the only other person who's still nice to her — no, that goes to Priam. Nice work, Paris.
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The Iliad / int_d4f281a3	type	Villainous Underdog
The Iliad / int_d4f281a3	comment	Villainous Underdog: Or, more accurately, Antagonistic Underdog. While the epic has too much Grey-and-Gray Morality for any character to be considered "villainous", the main antagonist, Hector, is a human warrior going up against an invincible demigod.
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The Iliad / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Iliad / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: What did the war start over? Paris taking Menelaus's woman. So why does Menelaus's brother think he can take Achilles's woman? Later on, Achilles himself suggests taking away the prize rightly won by Nestor's son in a chariot race. Now, you'd think if anyone knew what could go wrong when you took away a prize someone rightly won... Zeus castigates the gods for trying to interfere with fate by rescuing their various offspring in the war. Then he considers teleporting his own son Sarpedon to safety. Hera calls him out on this, pointing out how all the other gods would resent it, and he relents.
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The Iliad / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
The Iliad / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: The official objective of the Trojan War is to possess Helen of Troy.
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The Iliad / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
The Iliad / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles slays the Trojan warrior Hector for killing his much-loved cousin and best friend (and probably lover) Patrocles. After doing so, he ties Hector's body to the back of his chariot and races around the Trojan beach, proclaiming Greek superiority to Troy for twelve days and twelve nights. The Trojans do get their revenge, though, and even the Gods themselves eventually get offended by Achilles's actions — it is the involvement of the Gods that prevents Hector's corpse from being further mutilated, and the end of the Iliad involves Hector getting a proper burial by the Trojans.
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The Iliad / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Iliad / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Many women are abducted or taken captive. To the Greeks that would always have been rape in the sense of "theft of a person" since women were the property of their the father or husband. This almost certainly involved rape in the modern sense of "nonconsensual sex" as well, but the narrative is rarely explicit about this. Slaves can also be taken for the purpose of doing work, of course, and Agamemnon even once swears that he didn't have sex with a captive woman he stole from Achilles. Also, depending on the translation, book 14 is called "Hera Outflanks Zeus".
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The Iliad / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
The Iliad / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Hector waiting outside the Greek camp the night before Achilles returns to battle.
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The Iliad / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Iliad / int_dae5c997	comment	Athena herself helps out the Greek side. She also beats up Ares in a duel.
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The Iliad / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Iliad / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Sometimes the deaths in Iliad are quite messy. Homer goes into loving detail about how each weapon is swung/thrown, how it flies through the air, who it hits, what part of their body it hits, how it penetrates their armor, which internal organs it damages, whether/how it exits their body, how long it takes them to die, how they die, and their comrades' reaction to their death. These details were essentially 'oral memorials' kept to commemorate the dead in a society where most of the populace were illiterate and the honored dead were cremated.
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The Iliad / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
The Iliad / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Achilles is described as "fleet-footed" many times. Antilochus calls him the fastest of the Achaeans, though he might have just been buttering Achilles up for a reward, which he gets.
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The Iliad / int_dba1f5b5	type	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
The Iliad / int_dba1f5b5	comment	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The story is largely a build-up to Hector v. Achilles.
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The Iliad / int_df18bfaf	type	Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy
The Iliad / int_df18bfaf	comment	Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy: An early version of this is the Greater Ajax and his illegitimate brother Teucer. Teucer is the Achean's best archer and is depicted hiding behind Ajax's shield picking off Trojans while Ajax is among the Achean's best in melee combat.
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The Iliad / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
The Iliad / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Achilles and Patroclus after the latter's death.
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The Iliad / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Iliad / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: While Achilles and Patroclus are not explicitlynote During the Byzantine times, the Iliad went under at least attempts to make Achilles 'less gay', such as cutting off the scene where Achilles tells Patroclus that he wants them to be the only people alive in the world, or adding "just like nature intended" when they sleep next to their concubines described as gay lovers in the text itself, their love was taken for granted by the time of Plato's Symposium.
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The Iliad / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
The Iliad / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Greater Ajax and his illegitimate brother Teucer. Typically the latter will hide behind Ajax's shield and fire over it, providing long-range support, while Ajax handles the melee. It's rather heartwarming when you realize that, despite Teucer's bastard status, the two of them are very close.
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The Iliad / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Iliad / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Homer gets pretty graphic with the carnage. For example, in Book 16 Patroclus hits the Trojan Cebriones in the head with a rock which knocks his eyes right out of his head.
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The Iliad / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Iliad / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Paris is generally considered a useless, cowardly, wimpy waste of oxygen by modern readers, by the Acheans, and even the Trojans (and even by Helen, leading to much Alternate Character Interpretation).
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The Iliad / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
The Iliad / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: As Patroclus drives right up against the walls of Troy, Apollo taps him lightly and causes his borrowed armor to fall off. Since the godly touch also breaks his spear, the warrior is now completely exposed to the enemy and is quickly killed.
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The Iliad / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Iliad / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Paris may be the Ur-Example. Even the other Trojans think he's a philandering, cowardly jerk who's responsible for the war. His preferred weapon is a "cowardly bow." He is humiliated in his only proper fight, and relies on the Goddess of Love to get him out of trouble. When the armies gather for the duel between Paris and Menelaus, it is explicitly stated that, whether Greek or Trojan, everyone wants Paris dead. In one translation, he gets called a "desperate, womanizing pretty boy" by his badass older brother Hector, and a "sissy, curly-haired pimp of a bowman" by Diomedes. Even his father, Priam, calls him a "hero of the dance, light-fingered pillager of lambs and kids from the town pens", saying that he's a useless wimp. In part of the myth not covered in the Iliad, he gets one over Achilles by hitting his heel with his poisoned arrows. (Poison was not considered utterly dishonorable in this time period, but it wasn't exactly manly either, even if both Heracles and Philoctetes used arrows poisoned with the blood of the Hydra.)
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The Iliad / int_e71886	type	The Muse
The Iliad / int_e71886	comment	The Muse: Homer invokes the Muse of Poetry, Calliope, several times to help him get things right.
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The Iliad / int_e92dcbb5	type	Flaunting Your Fleets
The Iliad / int_e92dcbb5	comment	Flaunting Your Fleets: It includes a hour-long-in-reading chapter made solely of the list of how many ships and men every allied Greek kingdom sends to Troy.
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The Iliad / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Iliad / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Paris is such a Jerkass that Helen doesn't mention him in any meaningful way over her half-page of grieving over Hector. She doesn't even name him as the only other person who's still nice to her — no, that goes to Priam. Nice work, Paris.
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The Iliad / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
The Iliad / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: Achilles attempts to do this to Hector's body after defeating him (out of rage for Hector killing Achilles' best friend/possible lover Patroclus and attempting to mutilate the body of Patroclus), dragging Hector's body behind his chariot for 12 days straight. It gets so bad that the Greek Gods, for all their petty wrath and vengeance, get offended and step in to stop Hector's body from being desecrated.
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The Iliad / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted: Two of the Achaean leaders are named Ajax, or Aias (they even have a collective name — the Aiantes â€” which seems to be an example of ancient lampshading). One of the Ajaces' patronym is Oileades (son of Oileus) — and there's another soldier by that name briefly mentioned as well. One of Achilles' female slaves is named Diomede, the feminine form of Diomedes. Both Priam and Agamemnon have a daughter named Laodice/Laodike.
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The Iliad / int_ef0a5ce	comment	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Hera borrows Aphrodite's girdle to distract Zeus with sexy. This may be god on god, but Zeus, as king of the gods, can curb stomp anyone.
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The Iliad / int_f0864fd9	comment	Combat by Champion: Menelaus vs. Paris, Hector vs. Ajax. Menelaus and Paris' duel even was proposed to give "Helen and all her possessions" to the victor which could have stopped the war right there, but Aphrodite whisks Paris away from his now-certain defeat and one of the gods restarts the war by causing the Trojan Pandarus to shoot at Menelaus to ruin the truce.
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The Iliad / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Hector's attempt to redeem himself from his mistake of waiting outside the Greek camp the night before Achilles returns to battle, leading to the death of countless Trojans, by facing Achilles in single combat.note In the end Hector didn't dare hold his ground and ran three times around the walls of Troy, pursued by Achilles. Hector was finally stopped by Athena who appeared to him in the guise of his brother Deiphobus. Believing that he had now a backup he faced Achilles. Alas, Athena was on the Greek side.
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The Iliad / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Patroclus's ghost asks for his bones to be mixed with Achilles after death.
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The Iliad / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Amongst the gifts offered to Achilles to convince him to rejoin the battle are some Lesbian slaves (which is to say, women native to the island of Lesbos), which are described as "They whom all men lust after." Hoo boy...
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The Iliad / int_fbc18509	type	Oral Tradition
The Iliad / int_fbc18509	comment	Oral Tradition: Until it was written down, at least.
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The Iliad / int_fe48cea2	type	Lady of War
The Iliad / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: Athena herself helps out the Greek side. She also beats up Ares in a duel. Hera To a lesser extent Artemis.
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