Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm going to write an AU. Because basically Homer wrote about a Sparta that never existed. At the time in which he set the Illiad there was no such place: it only came into being two centuries before Homer himself. So I'm going to have to have a go at writing Paris in Sparta fairly soon.

I've got the versions of Homer, Ovid, Sophocles and Euripides to look at for the story and then Xenophon, Aristotle, Plutarch and Herodotus for the setting. Because there are so many things in Spartan society that don't fit with the Illiad: like the fact that there was no problem with adultery in Sparta, in fact it was encouraged when the husband was considerably older than the wife (cf Helen and Menelaus) because a younger man's "noble seed" was more likely to produce healthy children. In fact it was the husband himself who introduced persective 'fathers' to his wife.

I'm just too busy to write it yet.