Status Updates From The Iliad

I also must mention the Diomedes plot line that we see before reading about Hector. He is basically the reason behind the Greeks going ahead of the trojans, but after his ‘heroics’ he is warned not to harm gods, so before battling a Trojan (Glaucus) he asks him about his past, the two find they have a familial connection to one another and become friends and do not fight. Homer’s storytelling is incredible

Up to book 7 now, the last chapter was probably the best so far, zoned in on Hector and his mindset about the war and his role on it. We saw his disappointment in Paris and his struggle dealing with the fact that the war will be a lose-lose for him. The Greeks are too strong to beat so he either faces death, or humiliation and the loss of his wife to be a slave to the Greeks. Yet in the end he returns and fights on.