Everyone is always seething with red-hot rage. Everyone is always broken by overwhelming grief.
Everyone is obsessed with celebrity and status and public image. Everyone is terrified of being publicly shamed and cast out of society.
The common people never get a break, and when plague hits, they die.
Women's bodies are used by powerful men to increase and shore up their own power.
Public debates about policy for the good of all entail a great deal of grand-standing by a small number of wealthy individuals, in the service of their own egos.
Rumor runs through the people like wildfire.
There are enormous numbers of extremely deadly and expensive weapons in common circulation. Young men regularly use these weapons to slaughter large numbers of people in a short space of time.
Parents grieve for their dead children, who will never come home again. All you can hope for is a short time to grieve, before the next one.
The end times are coming and the world as we know it will soon be destroyed, although many of us like to pretend differently most of the time.
The Iliad is about a very distant world, very different from our own.
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