Homer was the poet, teacher and educator par excellence of the Greeks, and his work the "Iliad" is the first monument of known Greek literature, the fruit of a long epic tradition to which the poet masterfully gave definitive and monumental form. . The poem is more than an uninterrupted series of war episodes between the Achaeans and Trojans on the Trojan plain and before the walls of Ilium, and more than a poem of Achilles' anger against Agamemnon with its consequences on the death of Patroclus, the comrade of Achilles, and about the death of Hector, the bitter enemy. The "Iliad" is also the tragedy of the man who faces his fate and pays with death for his status as a hero, like Achilles or Hector himself, generous and selfless heroes, sometimes, and selfish, others, but always brave.