While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

For much of the Iliad, Achilles is effectively on strike, peeved by the confiscation of his enslaved girl, Briseis. When he does return to action, he too is motivated by revenge because Hector has ...

involved in a feud with Achilles over the two female servants Chryseis and Briseis Priam King of Troy and father to Hector; goes to Achilles to request the return of his son's body ...

Then the Greeks fall to fighting among themselves: Agamemnon and Achilles fall out over two female servants called Chryseis and Briseis and Achilles storms off, vowing he will take no further part ...