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The funeral games

>books women will never understand

>>7776351
>I know she liked the Percy Jackson books
Then you have your work cut out for you.

The Trojans are defending their homeland and the Greeks are invading for some perceived dishonor. All of the Trojans want is to keep their city safe and then we have Agamemnon saying "no baby boy still in his mother's belly, not even he escape--All Ilium blotted out." The Greeks want to commit genocide because Paris stole Menelaus's wife.

Then it seems like whenever a Greek actually kills a Trojan Homer launches into saying how their parents/wife/kids will wallow in sorrow because their kid/husband/father died on the battlefield.

Paris is at fault but the whole situation could have been handled by Menelaus either going over there to challenge him himself or just letting it go. And then there's the scene where Hector tries to comfort his wife and baby, and it's the first time we see anyone express an emotion that isn't anger or derision.

I find myself consistently hoping that the Trojans repel the Greeks off of their shores. Am I supposed to actually support the Achaeans?