The Trojan War (2006)
“Achilles brought the corpse back to his camp and dumped it before Patroclus’s bier. It lay there until after his friend’s funeral, when Achilles hitched up his chariot and dragged the cadaver around Patroclus’s tomb three times. Like Hittite and Egyptian generals, the Greek leader mistreated his enemy’s corpse.At first the gods displayed no objection; presumably they communicated through their priests. In fact, Zeus allowed Hector to be dishonored in his native land. But after nine days, enough... was enough, and Zeus insisted that Achilles return the corpse to Troy for burial or suffer divine retribution. Hector’s corpse had not begun to rot and the dogs had kept their distance—miracles both, unless “nine days” merely means a long time.Achilles’ behavior shocks us, but perhaps not as much as his cold-blooded slaughter of twelve noble Trojan youths before Patroclus’s pyre. The great hero himself had captured them in battle expressly for this purpose.Meanwhile, a revisionist version of Hector’s story began circulating.MoreLess
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