"Such is the way the Gods spin life For unfortunate mortals We live in pain, but they are strangers To care and to sorrow.” Readers of Homer’s The Iliad nurse an inexhaustible anger towards its hero; fore fronted in epic in its initial lines ‘μῆνις’ or godlike wrath. “It all began when Agamemnon and godlike Achilles quarrelled and parted.” Achilles does not appeal modern sensibilities. He is a callous slayer, arguably a rapist, confidently a pillager. By nature—relentlessly s