Review of class Monday Sept 24

We read Book 5 and discussed the following:

The many contrasts within the text: How family ties are emphasized in describing the Trojans, more so than with the Greeks, how perhaps the audience in the 8th century B.C.E. was more like the Trojans (as portrayed in Iliad) than the Greeks. How this, along with the use of Homeric Metaphor, creates a second level in the narrative, a humble, non-heroic, everyday level.