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is a tragic figure who believes strongly in social order, but questions the idea of fighting for glory. When Aias and Odysseus are sent by Agamemnon to plead with ' to fight for the Greeks, denies them, saying "There was no gratitude given for fighting incessant ....

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.... a dead body to its home so it can be given a proper burial, and it is against the code of honor to perform acts of excessive cruelty. is so distraught by his friends' death that he contradicts both of these conditions. First, he refuses to return Hector's body to the Trojans, and then proceeds to drag it behind his carriage by the ankles. ' deliberate mutilation of Hector's body shows the reader that he does not hold the code of honor in high regard. ....