“I wondered why Alexander wanted to fight over Helen when Paris and Menelaus should be the ones fighting over her. I thought maybe Alexander wanted Helen for himself?”
“If not for being angry, selfish, and spiteful, Achilles could be like Hector.”
“Akhilleus has some similarities with Gilgamesh; he is part god and part human, has a best friend who dies, and goes to his mother when he has a problem.”
“Helen has no regard for the consequences of her actions and only thinks of herself.”
“[Women in the Iliad] went along with what a man said; the man was in charge; he was the floor and the ceiling of a woman’s life; her servants were the walls. She was just the chandelier…”
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