How can ideals of heroism of the past and modern day be so radically different? Why do Achilles and Odysseus come off as huge douchebags?
>>2462039
The time and age in which the Illiad was created were very violent and brutal. Mocking a dead body of the foe you previously slayed is something any Bronze age warrior would do
Because the age in which they existed was almost a Mad Max situation with collapsed civilization all around a bunch of whackos with spears