Iliad "Anger Be Now Your Journal

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/ When he dismissed me from the camp, Achilles / told me clearly they will not harass us, / not until dawn comes for the twelfth day") (443), one perceives that respect has been shown between Greek and Trojan -- that honor has been paid.

There is, of course, a price that comes with paying it. That price may be tallied in the loss of Troy's favorite son -- or it may be tolled in the humiliation of Priam before Achilles. Indeed, Priam's obeisance before Achilles brings the entire work into focus -- it evokes, as Aristotle judged a drama should, pity and fear: says Priam: "Achilles, / be reverent toward the great gods! And take / pity on me, remember your own father. / Think me more pitiful by far, since I / have brought myself to do what no man else / has done before -- to lift to my lips the hand / of one who killed my son" (435).

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Priam's supplication strikes right at the heart of the proud Achilles -- and Achilles' wrath is finally allayed: "When Achilles' heart / had known the luxury of tears, and pain / within his breast and bones had passed away, / he stood then, raised the old king up, in pity / for his grey head and greybeard cheek, and spoke / in a warm rush of words: 'Ah, sad and old!'" (435). It is the pain of human suffering and the common loss of loved ones that the two proud men now share. They are meeting, not as warriors on the battlefield, but as equals under one roof of suffering.

If Homer could eloquently sum up the whole of his work in an episode between aged king and young warrior, it was only because he held it in mind from the beginning

There is a world of sorrow that no amount of honor or respect can assuage in the final line.....

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