The Iliad and the Bronze Age Weapons

Archaeological excavations of Bronze Age dig sites have shown a gradual change in the way that men thought about themselves. With increasing frequency during the Bronze Age, men were being buried with beautification tools like tweezers, razors, and combs. These goods suggest that slowly over the course of the centuries before the historical events of the Iliad supposedly took place, men were paying more attention to how they looked. Their most important possessions were their weapons and armor.