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The Poems of Troy
These episodes are part of a technique that homer uses more generally, which is to ask the what if question. And this is a way of keeping the audience awake. Uh, we've got three, three nights or three days of recitation going. And there is a lot of exploration of possibility, ties that are not then fulfilled in the mess. It's extraordinary how powerful sense of honor and shame are. I mean, neither side really wants this. Both both sides suffer. Well, i can't see. You see much gain. Everybody resents the fact, on both sides that paris took helen away from from greece - they do and they don't.