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Originally Posted by HarryT
BTW: Purely for information, the line about "Greeks bearing gifts" is actually from Book 2 of the Aeneid, not from the Iliad:
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"
Which can be translated as:
"I fear the Greeks, even those bringing gifts"
It often surprises people that the story of the Trojan Horse is NOT in the Iliad. It gets a very brief mention in the Odyssey, but the story of the Trojan Horse, as we know it, comes from Virgil's Aeneid, not from Homer at all.
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What I found surprising, given that I had never read the Iliad before, was where in the timeline of the Trojan war the Iliad begins. The story of the seduction (or kidnapping) of Helen, "The face that launched a thousand ships," is years in the past at Book 1.
Speaking of Book 1 it was sure tough on women back then. When you really look at what was being talked about for the situation of Chryseis and Briseis is both are just spoils of war, goods to be done as pleased with, including raped.