What do we learn about women in iliadic societies

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As a poem about war, the Iliad expectedly focuses on warriors and battlefields (a male space), but also leaves room for showing the effects of war on women and domestic spaces. Although Iliadic societies are patriarchal societies, the poem reveals more than it says. What do we learn about women in Iliadic societies? How does the poet complicate monolithic interpretations of gender and sexuality in the poem? Your discussion should focus on the following: women in the myth of Meleager recounted by Phoenix in Iliad 9; Briseis in Iliad 1 and Iliad 19; Andromache in Iliad 6 and Iliad 22; Helen in Iliad 3 and Iliad 24.

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