What is the true nature of Achilles as a hero?

Homer describes the meeting between Priam, King of Troy, and Achilles, his son鈥檚 killer. How is this meeting significant in the Iliad鈥檚 description of Achilles as a hero?What is the true nature of Achilles as a hero?
he is seen as angry and arrogant and vengeful from the very beggining of the iliad. the first line is about his god-like wrath. praim comes to retrieve hektors body and he refuses the pleas of an old defeated king who simply for the love of his son wanted to give him proper burial rights. instead achilles drags hektors body behind his chariot. defiling a corpse was pretty bad in ancient greece, so was denying priam a respected eldar and powerful king. this just goes to show his arrogance and how he is seen as defying the gods because he thinks he is invincible, just like in the beginning when he defies agamemnon.What is the true nature of Achilles as a hero?
Achilles (Achilleus) Greek hero famous for his deeds and death in the Trojan War. He was later deified, and his worship was particularly prominent in the Black Sea area. Son of Peleus, King of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid Thetis. As a child, Thetis dipped him in the River Styx in an attempt to protect him against harm, leaving only the heel by which she held him vulnerable. Achilles was eventually killed by Paris, whose arrow was guided by Apollo to the vulnerable heel.
Achilles was first and foremost a warrior. He was always extreamly defiant to anyone who tried to control him, includeing his own country's king. But during the Trojan War and his meeting with Priam, Achilles showed a deep respect.


The point there was that even though Achilles was a relentless warrior he still had a code of honor.


You should also consider that heroes on one side of a war are often the great villians on the other.
The true nature of Achilles was as a warrior and a man of the wild, he is reference to the change in society of the time. He was not well adapted to the progressively more civilized life of the societies of the time. He represents the older arch type of society and his character is drawn in contrast to Odysseus. Where Odysseus could organize and cooperate with others Achilles could not. He was a out of place with what was consider civilized society where Odysseus was an example of a modern man, at least for the time.





So Achilles was a Hero and was hone red as one but he was no longer a role model, because he couldn't function in the new world of men like Odysseus.