Personalities · 25 · The Soldier

Achilles' choice

In the Iliad, as classicist Caroline Alexander shows, Achilles chooses between a short glorious life and a long obscure one at home.

The heroic ideal of noble death.

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Gilgamesh likewise goes to battle confident that if he falls, his name will endure.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 395

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