Nature and culture in the Iliad Book

Takes us out of our modern context and deepens the scope of what can be understood and admired in Homer. For me, Achilles is the essential, fundamental Other -- maybe because he's so complete. We envy Achilles his completeness because, I think, we don't recognize that its price is sorrow, and since we can't imagine a valid justification for divine rage, we find it hard to admire him. Hector, human in his incompleteness, can easily inspire our admiration -- but not our envy.