The rage are the first words in book one of Homer’s Iliad, which is appropriately titled “The Rage of Achilles”. Rage makes up the theme of the Iliad and guides the path in which the epic follows. In the Iliad, there are specific instances in which Achilles’ shows himself to be selfish and immoral when he is angry. Two specific instances occur when Achilles refuses to fight in the war, and when he mistreats Hector’s body. Achilles’ selfish and immoral rage begins after Agamemnon demands that Achilles’ gives him Briseis. Briseis was a war prize for Achilles’, and Achilles feels that he is being dishonored by Agamemnon. Achilles relates his battle with Agamemnon to Paris' kidnapping of Helen, and relates himself to Menelaos. Achilles feels that
