This heavily hints at the idea that Homer was hoping to convey with this piece. By heavily hinting that the Greeks were superior to the Trojans by having the Greek hero be vastly superior to the Trojan hero, the sack of Troy was an inevitable event. This carries significance as a portrayal of one idea that may always hold true. That idea was the natural law of life, which has most popularly been recognized as Darwin’s law of natural selection: the weak are doomed to die at the hands of the strong, and there is no other way around that. Hector knew, even if he at first didn’t want to admit, that if he fought Achilles, he was going to lose and perish. This is a striking portrayal of this natural phenomenon, and makes The Illiad an impactful piece of literature to this
This heavily hints at the idea that Homer was hoping to convey with this piece. By heavily hinting that the Greeks were superior to the Trojans by having the Greek hero be vastly superior to the Trojan hero, the sack of Troy was an inevitable event. This carries significance as a portrayal of one idea that may always hold true. That idea was the natural law of life, which has most popularly been recognized as Darwin’s law of natural selection: the weak are doomed to die at the hands of the strong, and there is no other way around that. Hector knew, even if he at first didn’t want to admit, that if he fought Achilles, he was going to lose and perish. This is a striking portrayal of this natural phenomenon, and makes The Illiad an impactful piece of literature to this