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Question
In The Shield of Achilles, what was Thetis’ reaction to “what the god had wrought”? Why did she feel this way?
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Solution
- Thetis cried out in dismay - her son, Achilles, would not live long.
- Hints that values of the classical age represented by Achilles too would not survive.
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