What is the relationship between achievement, social status, and social order in the Iliad?

Does
the poem offer a critical commentary on the society it depicts? In your answer, be sure to define
your terms, especially social status and social order.
Through the themes and resolution of the Iliad, Homer promotes a social hierarchy in which an
individuals social status has a definite correlation with his achievement.
Bibliography:
Becker, Ernest. The Denial Of Death. New York: Free Press, 1973. Print.
Homer., A. T Murray, and William F Wyatt. Iliad. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1999. Print.