CHAPTER III.

_ACHILLES._

Unity of _Iliad_.--Character of Achilles.--Structure of the whole Poem.--Comparison with other Epics.--Energy Dividing into Anger and Love.--Personality of Achilles.--The Quarrel with Agamemnon.--Pallas Athene.--The Embassy.--Achilles' Foreknowledge of his Death.--The Message of Antilochus.--Interview with Thetis.--The Shouting in the Trench.--The Speech of Xanthus.--The Pæan over Hector's Corpse.--The Ghost of Patroclus.--The Funeral Obsequies of Patroclus.--Achilles and Priam.--Achilles in Hades.--Achilles Considered as a Greek Ideal.--Friendship among the Greeks.--Heroism and Knighthood: Ancient and Modern Chivalry.--The _Myrmidones_ of Æschylus.--Achilles and Hector.--Alexander the Great.--The Dæmonic Nature of Achilles Page 91