The Morality of the Iliad

The German philosopher Nietzsche argued that the world of Homer represents a different kind of moral system than the one we have. Many modern readers, when they read the Iliad, always waiting for the bad guy to show up and they don't get the bad guy. It's the heroic impulse versus the limits of human mortality. And you could say that Homer is almost demonstrating how great disastrous consequences can rise from the smallest little things.