Women In The Iliad Scholarship

Question 1

What does Farron say about how Aphrodite treats Helen?

Answer 1

Farron ‘aphrodite acts like the human male characters and treats helen like an object’

Question 2

What does Graziosi say about named soldiers and unnamed women in the Iliad?

Answer 2

Graziosi ‘there is no unnamed soldier’ compare to the unnamed women

Question 3

What does Farron say about how Homer depicts women In the Iliad?

Answer 3

Farron ‘Homer portrayed all his women to display the agonies of war’

Question 4

How does Farron depict the relationship between the emotions of women and the men of the epic?

Answer 4

Farron ‘Homer emphasises how intense and deep the emotions of the women of the Iliad are but how little regard the men of epic had for such emotions’

Question 5

What type of figures does Farron say the women of the Iliad are?

Answer 5

Farron ‘the women of the Iliad are all tragic figures - as their inability to determine the course of events makes them so’