The Iliad

In The Iliad Achilles lacked so many moral standards.  One of which was that he saw his slave girl as just a symbol of status and not as a person.  We know this because when she was stolen, there was never any proof that he actually loved her.   When Agamemnon stole his slave girl away, he almost killed him and not because he was emotionally tied to the girl, but because he didn’t like that Agamemnon was practicing a higher authority over Achilles.  It bothers me that for so long women have been so suppressed that they barely had any status at all.   Though even as the fact that women aren’t valued high in status, they still have major contributions to conflict.  They are so powerful that even while being suppressed, they are able to make men fight over them with their beauty.  Women contribute to a huge factor in the pride of a man and so even while not saying a word, she is able to start a war.  Men underestimate our power greatly, and even when they think it is them that has the control, they aren’t prepared.  http://images.comicbookresources.com/previews/marvelcomics/illustrated/preview/MARILILIAD001_Page_1.jpg this picture explains it all: women are in control.