Iliad Assignment

The first thing that I have to say, is that Agamemnon has a huge ego and self absorbed. He is giving Achilles so much stuff, but after he is done telling what he will give to Achilles, he says but I am the better man. How can you be so self-absorbed, does he really think that Achilles will come back. If Agamemnon really wanted Achilles he shouldn't make fun of him. He shouldn't say he is better, in my opinion, he isn't. He bothers me, he takes prizes that he didn't fight for, he claims he is the best, but so far, I have heard nothing of him going into war. If he is so great, then why is he losing, why does he need Achilles so bad? Why doesn't he get up and fight? He is a war chief, why doesn't he act like one? Agamemnon claims to fight and be great, but why does he steal prizes, why does he claim to be great. Its because he wants arete, he wants to be well known, he wants people to be afraid of his power, but them he wants people to like him because of his power. Agamemnon is doing terrible at both, he may be feared, but only because they fear his army, Achilles, and not many people love him, because he is unfair to his soldiers, he takes their prizes, and doesn't fight he cares nothing of them. The real person who is loved and feared is Achilles. People love him because he has awesome strength he has amazing power, but that is also why people fear him. But back on topic, I don't really have a question, when reading this part I was with Kit, Lauren and Beth. Every once in a while we stopped to answer peoples questions and talk about this. We all agreed that Agamemnon is a "jerk" in Kit's words.

From the start of the book I really didn't like Agamemnon, after reading this, I hate him more. As I said above, he is a jerk, he is losing the war, he wants Achilles help. He is going to give Achilles so much stuff for him to come back, but after the list of things, he says that he is still better than Achilles. How can he say that, if he is so great, if he is so strong then he wouldn't need Achilles help to end the war. Agamemnon is the one that should die, not Achilles, he thinks he is great but he isn't. He just a huge coward hiding behind Achilles in his greatness. I didn't like Agamemnon before, but now I really don't like him.

Towards the end of the reading Odysseus is talking to Achilles, he is trying to convince Achilles to go back to Agamemnon. He told Achilles the huge list of thing that Agamemnon was willing to give. I guess he was trying to appeal to emotion, the reason I say this is because the things the Agamemnon was willing to give up would make you happy. But Achilles says that Agamemnon could give the world to Achilles and he still wouldn't fight.
Goodbye