The Iliad calls Achilles' psychic state following the slaying of Patroclus 'oulomenos'; i.e., an 'utter rage' similar to the berserker state.
It is heroic because it is so beyond the everyday human as to be godlike.
One sees in Synge's play, _Playboy of the Western World_ that 'oloumenos' there is also revered and the young maidens line up in their shifts (nightgowns) for the hero.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgVmQ_WZcs8&NR=1
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1240
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/classics/directory/index.cfm?personid=78
"Homer and his guide" painted by Bouguereau:
http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/b/Bouguereau_William/large/Homere_et_son_guide.jpg
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