the iliad does not have 'monstrous characters'. the moral content of the text is monstrous. explicit depiction ala GOT is not the only bad way to have this stuff, i'd argue its close to as bad or worse to present such things as completely ordinary and okay like the Iliad does.

you're so aggro everytime anyone disagrees with you, thats why i tried to pre-empt but i should've just not engaged. i really have not read GoT.

i have read the iliad, i'm really repulsed by its sexpolitics, and it bothers me that you'd bring it up as a counterexample for bad handling of SV. that's it.