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Mortal Women are tricky.
In one instance, Helen (a mortal women) has started the Trojan War. Paris has stolen her from Menelaus and Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon with help of allied Bronze Age settlements go to Troy to get her back. Helen speaks openly and advises the father of Paris and Hector, Priam and argues with the goddess Aphrodite.
Then you have Andromache, the wife of Hector who takes care of her family and begs Hector not to fight for she will be enslaved once he is dead by the Greeks. Hector hears her but does not do as she asks, for his duty to Troy and his own culture is more important.
The there is Bresius and Crieses- War prizes who are considered nothing but loot to the Greeks. Though the taking of Cresies from Agamemnon and Bresius from Achilles sparks a feud between the two, it just as well may have been a vase or a necklace.
There is a spectrum of the women in the Iliad, though none of them even Helen is above man.
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