women: in the iliad key female characters, Andromache as a wife to hector, hecabe as a mother and wife- gives advice to priam, organises religious duties in troy. breisies- barely speaks she laments for patroclus, she is passed around like an object between the men. goddess as women, Thetis,hera,athena,aphrodite. in the Aeneid, women have a less present role, the women who are key characters end up destroyed. crease aeneas' wife was killed off, dido a strong female queen whom ends up dying and her whole kingdom goes into disarray. then camilla the warrior who is a formidable force on the battlefeild ends up dying, Lavinia whom the war is 'about' dosent even have one word of dialogue she is an object