Reading Homer’s Iliad is anti-indoctrination. Is Homer praising war and heroism or questioning their value? Is Homer advocating for the gods or calling faith in Zeus and his family into question? Is Achilles or Hector the true heroic model? Both? Neither?
Aside from the urgent questioning, we are given urgent empathy as well. The Trojans, the putative enemies, are not the Other, but they are brothers and mothers, fathers and sisters. All are mortal, and wrath is understandable, but not entirely justifiable in action and effect.
Read Homer’s Iliad and be mortal in the best sense.
