Zeus’ Authoritative Determination When one is dishonored, there are certain expected reactions. These reactions between Agamemnon and Achilles in Homer’s Iliad cause the primary conflict. Each man reacts similarly. They become bitterly angry toward each other. Achilles’ anger goes far beyond any average person’s rage, “which put pains thousandfold upon the Achains,” a wrath that only gods are capable of (1. 2-3). The only way to understand this wrathful reaction of Achillaes is to view it as an essential piece to Zeus’s broad master plan that includes suppressing human pride, sealing Achilles’ fate, and deciding the outcome of the war with the