Homer, a blind poet from the Bronze Age Greece, has influenced many parts of the Greek’s society, such as bringing them out of the Dark Ages, inspiring other epic poems, and many others. In his epic poem, The Iliad, Homer writes of a noble, strong, and courageous man named Achilles. He had one good friend, loyal and trustworthy, named Patroclus. Homer displays his idea of arete through these two friends. Friendship love, or apapi filia in greek, is the love that cannot be given by parents or siblings, but mutual love as friends. Agapi filia, friendship love, is an important virtue to the Greeks because of its motivation that goes further than any other love would go. Achilles being the strong man he was possessed many virtues– therefore being