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Modern readers are often disturbed by the self-centeredness of Achilles, the hero of Homer's The Iliad. Achilles not only withdraws from battle and refuses to support his greek comrades because of injured pride, but he even hopes that the Trojan enemies will defeat his fellow Greeks. Nevertheless, Homer means for us to see Achilles as an admirable, heroic figure. Homer clearly saw him as the greatest of the warriors at Troy because Achilles has the quality of excellence that was sought after by all Mycenean heroes. To Homer this quality, commonly known as arete, included excellence in all the ways a man could be excellent--physical excellence moral excellence, and intellectual excellence.