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| Homer's Achilles is not much of a lover. None of the Greeks are -- not even Odysseus, who in the Iliad has yet to acquire the uxorial steadfastness (if not strict fidelity) that he demonstrates in the Odyssey. The bedroom star of the Iliad is Paris, abductor of Helen, who is still so inflamed by her that even after a battlefield humiliation at the hands of her husband, Menelaus, he retreats to her chamber for an afternoon sex session. |