A common theme of the Iliad was 'claos' - glory, honor, distinction. Character after character, choice after choice, everything was based on claos.
And, now, in the Holy Bible, we are seeing the same theme. Eve is in an absolute, total paradise. She has more than we could ever imagine - God is by her side every day, literally (as it says in Gen 3:8) walking through the garden. God was in and among her, she had a lifelong companion whom she loved, all the food she ever needed, and no guilt or shame at all. However..... she desired more! When the serpent came to her with promises of knowledge and wisdom, she did what she had to to gain that "wisdom" despite what her God, her one and only creator, had told her to do. Eve knew there would be consequences, but yet she took the risk.
Like Achilles, Eve acted in the hope of gaining something more. For Achilles it was glory, for Eve it was knowledge. Are they really so different? Are we really so different?
So... the question this forces us to ask is what are we striving for? Is it for something honorable and noble, or are we just chasing after the frivolous things of this world?
P.S. I commented on Alanamills's "This Isn't About Fate"
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