How might we draw on queer and critical race theory to create our own counter-narratives in relationship to the Iliad?

Such a counter-narrative could be in the voice of a non-dominant character from the poem.  It might imagine a subaltern character’s (perhaps unnoticed or unexpressed) experience of the events, circumstances, or a specific scene, or the ramifications of the events, circumstances, or a specific scene on a character whose experience isn’t centered in the poem.  The counter-narrative could be in the author’s own voice(s), exploring their own experience of the poem, from a radical, critical, or otherwise non-dominant perspective.  What else could a counter-narrative to the Iliad look like?

In the following chapters, students in Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece present their responses to these questions.