On: I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)

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Didn't have time to read it but listened via LibriVox. It's a story of a violent age where thuggery ruled. Women were at the mercy of men (E.g. Penelope having to just about control a bunch of 'suitors').

I can't find it at the moment but IIRC Odysseus and his men put in at a port at a village, put all the men there to the sword and taje the women for slaves, sex and bounty. You get the picture. Scratch the surface and it gets ugly.

(Fascinating read nonetheless)

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For sure. People talk about killing and enslaving a village super casually, like they don't consider it a moral question at all.