⟳ Репост от Matt Darling
and even the Iliad itself both celebrates and deplores violence and suggests an empathic understanding of the fate of the losers of war, including the women. the lament of captive women is a repeat theme in later Greek drama.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòimo it's almost certainly false that people did not have critiques and concerns with sexual violence, slavery etc that at the very least substantively overlap with modern ones. whether or not they got to write epics revered and remembered by the leaders of the slave societies of the day es otra cosa