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Homer’s Iliad is laden with messages and ideals that people of ancient Greece once valued and to some extent we still value today. There are recurrent themes throughout the epic that support Homer’s main message which was learning life lessons and growing as an individual. The main themes of the Iliad are heroes’ code of conduct, honor and rage, hospitality/community, greed and power, the definition of a hero, and social systems between Greeks and Trojans. Homer gets his message across through the acts of hubris committed by characters and the consequences that are ultimately paid by committing this hubris. Homer uses Achilles as an example of a character that commits hubris through the entire epic quite consistently. The Iliad begins with Achilles’ selfish and childish acts of rage. Achilles allows for his emotions to overpower him throughout the epic. First when he prays to Thetis for his comrades to be killed so that Agamemnon will beg him to return to fight the Trojans. Achilles continues to act