From fighting together to fighting each other, here lies a story of two Greek heroes Agamemnon and Achilles. Agamemnon, warlord of the Achaean army, sacked a city of Trojan allied with his partner in crime Achilles. Thus, capturing maidens Chryseis and Briseis. Chryses, father of Chryseis, prays to Apollo(god of  priest) to get back her daughter from Agamemnon. This creates an argument from our two heroes that were once friends.

The epic opens up as “Rage”, showing emotions of Achilles anger eating his soul away. Agamemnon selfishness and power creates him to take away Achilles prize possession Briseis. Achilles has a point here stating in this passage “ I don’t have any quarrel with the trojans….. unhonoring myself and piling up a fortune for you” (lines162-181, pg234). Achilles emphasizes on “my” showing his dirty work doesn’t grant him a reward as big as Agamemnon and now he wants to take Achilles prize away. It’s like a drama featuring two guys from high school fighting over a girl.

Although the morality is focused on rage, it concerns with the actions of the gods. The two gods Apollo and Athena enforced the argument to be much bigger. Apollo started the argument creating the raid to take back Chryseis. Athena prevents Achilles from using his sword and insult Agamemnon instead verbally. The conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon highlights the aspects of life, morality and the vital importance of honor.