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LordGro Since: May, 2010
Aug 14th 2022 at 3:10:58 PM •••

I removed this example for not describing a trope found in the Iliad. The Iliad is not a Twice-Told Tale. The example of Twice-Told Tale must go to those other works which tell the events of the Trojan War from the Trojan women's perspective.

  • Twice-Told Tale: Many women have written from the perspective of the Greek soldiers' war-brides, since everything they do revolves around Questionable Consent; Homer claims that the soldiers treated their captives kindly, but he was a Greek man, after all—in real life, they weren't known for caring what women thought. Hector, as Troy's champion, is openly afraid for all the city's women when he goes to his death, so he certainly doesn't think the Achaeans will treat them kindly.

Let's just say and leave it at that.
Maitreya Since: Mar, 2013
Mar 8th 2013 at 6:30:20 AM •••

Regarding Hector as Hero Antagonist: Some (this is not a majority view, AFAIK) scholars believe the "original" Iliad was wholly or in part composed by a Trojan and either Hellenized by the author himself (in which case they assume he was a Trojan captive or hostage in Greece, based on a possible etymology of the name/title Homer) or Hellenized by the Greeks at a later time. If this is the case, it would of course help explain why the "antagonist" Hector seems like the real hero, while most of the Greeks (including, or even especially, Achilles) come across as bloodthirsty savages "burning Rome". Either that, or it could simply be that the ancient Greeks thought bloodthirsty savagery was perfectly acceptable, even admirable, as long as the Greeks won.

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