Some notes on Iliad (II)

Achilles’ sorrow

Achilles is a hybrid, he will die as human, but he is also a superman because of his goddess mother. This makes him unhappy that he cannot live forever like the god, and have to die some way like human. And he has the knowledge of his background. The sorrow that Achilles carries all his life is like a person with parents having Huntington disease. You know you will have the disease in some age of your life and die of it.  You will carry this sorrow from the moment you know your disease gene. This also reminds me of the Replicants in the blade runner, they are full of sorrow and anger when they know they cannot live longer yet they have the superhuman power. I wonder, there are many other hybrids in Iliad, are they also destined to have sorrow? Or, they don't have it because they don't have the knowledge? Then the question is why Achilles has the knowledge.

Petroklos is a "glory of men" to Achilles, but a brother and friend to Briseis, though dear and near for both. Although they share different personal sorrows, these sorrows merge in lamentations, become one emotion.