Well done, @quillfire, as usual.

If you'd forgive me for nitpicking, Achilles was no Athenian; his people were Thessalian. Indeed, Athens was still little more than a cowtown at the time of the Trojan War - remember this was on the border between history and mythology, somewhere between 1200-1600 BC.

Yes, of course, I understand. You spoke of "Athens", to evoke the idea of public opinion or reputation among the Greeks as as whole, but the very idea of the Greeks as one people is more a modern invention than an ancient reality.

Remember if you will, the "Greeks" consisted of three or four different ethnic groups, none of them native to "Greece".

The Aeolian, Ionians, and Dorians had no love for one another, and Agamemnon was Mycenaean, possibly a fourth different group, (and possibly not; scholarly opinion is divided).

One thing we do know for certain sure, Achilles and Agamemnon hated each other with a burning passion.