The purpose of virtue is to provide a moral guide to our actions and to prevent people from making ill-reasoned decisions and creating toxic habits. Throughout the story of the Iliad, human virtue seems to take a back-seat to pride, honor, glory and a seemingly endless list of selfish traits, but it does on more than one occasion take center-stage. One occurrence of human virtue being a present was the humility of Agamemnon. In the midst of war, the Achaean army saw defeat slowly creeping upon them, and this almost sent Agamemnon, their leader, into panic. Agamemnon is notoriously prideful and as a glory seeking king , one would assume that he lacks humility, but in dark times, human virtue seems to shine. In his time of distraughtion, Agamemnon
