So the two men were stretched beside each other in the dust, both leaders, he of the Thracians, the other of the bronze-clad Epeans; and many others were slain around them. There, a man coming upon the scene would not make light of the work of war, someone still unharmed and unwounded by sharp bronze, 540 who whirled through their midst with Pallas Athena to lead him by the hand and to ward off the onslaught of spears thrown; for many Trojans and Achaeans on that day lay sprawled face down in the dust beside one another.
The Iliad does not glorify war. If anything, the futility of war and the loss of good men on both sides.
