https://tube.leshley.ca/videos/watch/2ef9243a-35c5-4834-a720-baa8b1a706a4 Book VI of the Iliad is where Homer strips the gods from the stage and lets human beings carry the full weight of the story. On the battlefield, an extraordinary encounter between Diomedes and Glaucus suspends combat for ancestral friendship — and ends with one of Homer's driest jokes. Inside Troy's walls, Hector moves through three rooms — his mother's failed prayer, his brother's shameful comfort, and his wife's desperate plea — before reaching for his son and watching him flinch at a helmet's plume. This is the book where love, courage, and ritual are fully real and fully insufficient, where a father prays for his son to become a warrior in a war that will kill them both, and where the most beautiful simile in the poem is given to its most irresponsible character. A close reading of the Iliad's most intimate and devastating book. Connect or ddonate: https://gravatar.com/lyonleshley Check out the library: https://library.leshley.ca/ Watch this and other videos on: https://tube.leshley.ca/ #Iliad #Homer #BookVI #GreekMythology #Classics #AncientLiterature Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:17:10 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.leshley.ca https://tube.leshley.ca/lazy-static/avatars/f6b93199-2729-46d2-9f70-6532aa5e9a2a.jpg https://tube.leshley.ca/videos/watch/2ef9243a-35c5-4834-a720-baa8b1a706a4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.leshley.ca/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.