More than that, it embodies an essential part of the metaphysical order of the universe, the divine arrangements by which things behave as they make. This idea is first suggested in the opening invocation: These oft-quoted lines represent the ironic heart of the poem; At the beginning, Homer explicitly states that the story centers on Wrath, a destructive rage condemning noble men to agony and death, reducing them to nothing but the flesh of themselves. The second half, less cited, however highlights a second objective (to be added?). To begin, it is worth noting that the so-called heroes did not embrace war unequivocally. Many, as is supposedly constructed in the collective unconscious, express the wish for a world without war or, rather, for a different arrangement avoiding killings and deaths on the battlefield. Alas, however, there is no safe haven and so we must accept final death as inevitable, for war, as defined, was established by divine will; Even when examining perhaps the most famous evocation of a warrior's faith, namely the speech, Sarpedon still convincingly argues that the glory of a hero is in no way worth the inconvenience if human beings have a way to escape the war.