which the warrior is an integral part. Odysseus first seems to challenge Achilles:
Up with you then, if even at this late hour you want to rescue the exhausted troops from the Trojans' fury. If you refuse, you yourself will regret it later, for when the damage has been done there will be no mending it. Bestir yourself, before that stage is reached (Homer, Iliad, 167).
Here we see Odysseus's understanding of heroism as being in part a loyalty and responsibility to one's nation and one's fellow citizens and warriors. Odysseus is playing on Achilles's sense of guilt and his fear that he will regret his decision greatly if disaster strikes the Achaeans.
Then Odysseus appeals to Achilles's memory of his father Peleus and Peleus's pleadings to Achilles to avoid precisely the kind of anti-heroic behavior Achilles is now exhibiting. Odysseus
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