Homer highlights the difference between women in the Iliad by the way they’re

described as moving. Briseis “left unwillingly” with Agamemnon’s men. In

comparison Homer uses the simile for Thetis “rose swiftly from the grey
water like a mist”. It shows the difference in the way different women are
treated within the Iliad, Thetis can travel freely and control what she does
because she’s a Goddess (albeit a minor one), someone powerful and revered;
normal women in the epic (and the Ancient Greek world as a whole) are treated
like objects, seen as Geras (prizes) in war and not allowed to do what they want
unlike the men.
Homer also highlights the difference in characters by comparing Achilles and
Patroclus. Achilles, though extremely emotional gets his own speech in the
extract, while Patroclus just “does as his dear companion had told him”. It could
show what time (honour) gets you in the Ancient Greek world, that being a
renowned, skilled warrior will grant you a lot of importance and reverence.

I’m struggling a bit to write about anymore points so I’ll hand this in now but
I’m going to give it another go at some point this week