Homer's Nationalistic Attitude

Abstract

Ancient as well as modern critics have been struck by the fact that Homer represents the Trojans less favourably than the Greeks ^). When Trojan heroes such as Hector or Aeneas are mentioned in the Iliad, the Scholia abound with notes pointing to the inferiority of the Trojans and the superior character of their Greek opponents (2). Though the observations of the Scholia are no doubt exaggerated on this point, modern critics, too, have observed that in some passages the Trojans are represented as inferior to the Greeks (3). On the other hand, it cannot be denied that the Trojans are portrayed sympathetically in their domestic

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