Question

I need help.
What message is Homer trying to get across by telling the story of the return of Hector's body from Achilles to Priam?

Why do you think Homer would have included such a tale as part of an epic that tells the story of Greek victory?

Homer is credited with creating the Iliad between four and five centuries after the war ended. Why do historians still consider it a valuable source, even though they know it is probably flawed and biased?

Answer 1

Answer:

At the acheaen camp, Achilles and the Myrmidons continue their mourning for petroclus. Achilles finally begins to accept food, but he still refuses to wash until he has buried petroclus. The night, his dead companion appears to him in a dream bgging Achilles to hold his soul can enter the land of the dead. The next day, after an elaborate ceremony in which he secrifices the Acheaens, Twelve Trojan Captives Achilles preys for assistance from the winds and lights patroclus's funeral pyre