The Iliad gives a thoroughgoing account of the Trojan War and of war as an inescapable feature of human life through a plot driven by the rage of its central hero Achilles. Achilles’ rage evolves from a bitter conflict within the Achaean camp into a vengeful hatred of the Trojan hero Hector until Achilles succeeds in killing Hector and assuring the fall of Troy; the poem concludes as Achilles accepts his own impending death and makes peace with Hector’s grieving father.