With this in mind, the killing of King Priam on the steps of the altar of his gods becomes more than just a death. Pyrrhus is not only slaughtering the king of a rival city, but is going out of his way to defile a sacred place of their gods as an act of dishonoring his enemies. Because of this contempt for the gods, Pyrrhus has a poor or bad character at this time. The text describes Pyrrhus as “Burning for the death blow.”# It would seem that there is not a shred of human concern in this man. Pyrrhus has become like a wild animal and is carried away by anger. Aeneas's first reaction to seeing his king barbarically massacred on the altar of his own gods is one of absolute horror. For the first time that night, an inhuman shiver gripped me from head to toe. I was left without a crew and the image of my dear father came to mind...