"I deserve more respect than that Achilles." Peleus would not let up on his son's or his wife's dismissal. "I was a soldier like you Achilles, I---" but he was cut off quickly with a finger in the face as his son seethed at him his hate.
"You were nothing more to me than a name. A ghost of a man who gave me a spear to cart off to war. Given to me not even by you but by Odysseus. You were just a story told me at night when old warriors wanted to remember their glory days. You were no father. I am the man I am because of my own glory, not because you handed anything to me or taught me how to be a man."