The Trojan War: A Golden Age of Heroism

Nestor says that the fighters of his day are not such as the ones he knew when he was a boy. And Nestor is so old that he's actually known some of the more famous heroes. So would the poet be impersonating these different voices and bringing them to life in different ways? We have every reason to think so, if you just look at the pages,. about half of it is dramatic dialogue.