Just as an aside to your main point, the Greeks were an alliance and in the original Greek text (well I assume that the Greek was the original but I've seen no reason not to) they're not Greeks so much but Daanans and Achaeans (and others). The above part of the Iliad (Hom. Il. 1.1) is directed against the Achaeans.
Just as an aside to your main point, the Greeks were an alliance and in the original Greek text (well I assume that the Greek was the original but I've seen no reason not to) they're not Greeks so much but Daanans and Achaeans (and others). The above part of the Iliad (Hom. Il. 1.1) is directed against the Achaeans.