Characters who are not nobles/kings
I was reading through the Illiad (and/or what's left of the Trojan War Cycle) when eventually I paused and thought : “Hey... All those characters are nobles! Privileged men and women who descend from the gods directly!”
I ran down all the Literary classics related to the Greek myths and realised the same was also true of other tragedies and plays. Everyone is a privileged upper class member! Or... Maybe not. Maybe I'm wrong.
Are there any character, or even heroes, who are definitely not nobles, kings or anything among those lines? Bonus points if they're not Descendants of the gods either.
I was reading through the Illiad (and/or what's left of the Trojan War Cycle) when eventually I paused and thought : “Hey... All those characters are nobles! Privileged men and women who descend from the gods directly!”
I ran down all the Literary classics related to the Greek myths and realised the same was also true of other tragedies and plays. Everyone is a privileged upper class member! Or... Maybe not. Maybe I'm wrong.
Are there any character, or even heroes, who are definitely not nobles, kings or anything among those lines? Bonus points if they're not Descendants of the gods either.