For this reason, it is helpful to examine these two characters in particular to gain an impression of how these two people differed from one another.
As leaders of their people and key figures in the war, both men tend to cast their personal values back upon those they lead, thus presenting a generalized conception of how the Greeks and the Trojans differed in their overall worldview. Two prime examples of the human side of characters can be found in the characters of Achilles, who fights for the Greeks, and Hector, who fights for the Trojans. Each character displays a desire to win glory in battle, but each also displays unique differences regarding personal strengths and weaknesses as the action of the story moves forward. Although it displays the same sort of adherence to the early ‘heroic code’, the heroes in this tale retain many of their human frailties and concerns.
Homer’s Iliad is somewhat unique among the ancient tales because of its tendency to include human features in its heroes.
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