Ex figure-skater Tonya Harding has used the 20th anniversary of the infamous attack on her sporting rival Nancy Kerrigan to complain that she became a victim of the assault too - ruining her chances of Olympic gold and her life.
The gods are of a definite importance, but it is the heroes that really make the poem. The heroes of the Iliad live in a world influenced by shame culture; they are not driven to action by guilt or morals, but by the need for honour in the eyes of other men.owever, one thing that does stand out about the Iliad is that, unlike in the Odyssey, there is a distinct lack of bards represented within the poem. In fact the only time that we see any kind of song performed is not by a bard at all, but by Achilles.
Mortality is the burning question for the heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and for Achilles and Odysseus in particular. The human condition of mortality, with all its ordeals, defines heroic life itself.0. To say that an epic like the Iliad is about the Greeks and what it is to be a Greek is not far from saying that the Iliad is about Achilles. We have seen how this hero, as the very first words of the song make clear, is the focal point of the Iliad.