Not only does Achilles not return Hector’s body, he further desecrates it, in cold blood. Thetis at first attempts to guide Achilles; she still hopes to get him to ascend to godhood. But Achilles refuses; he cares more about Patroclus than about his honor, legacy, or earthly or divine power. As Achilles embraces his human love for Patroclus, Thetis disavows him as her child—while the implication is that she never cared about Achilles human half, Thetis’s tone implies that she may just be lashing out because Achilles has hurt her. Achilles’s accusations against Thetis, after all, can’t be described as fair either; his grief has made him impossible to be reached, but also made him unwilling to take responsibility for his own role in what happened. This scene also reintroduces Pyrrhus, and establishes him as someone who will uphold the ideas of Greek “manliness” that Achilles never entirely believed in and has now given up on entirely. Achilles’s whole story is proof that Greek honor only leads to misery, but Thetis is clearly still instilling the same values in Pyrrhus.