Iliad symbolism

http://www.philaletheians.co.uk/Study%20notes/Hellenic%20and%20Hellenistic%20Papers/Taylor%20on%20the%20Wanderings%20of%20Ulysses.pdf
The neoplatonist Hermeas, explains the basic symbolism of the Iliad:
"By Ilion we must understand the generated material place, which is so denominated from mud and matter (para ten iloun kai ten oulen), and in which there are war and sedition. But the Trojans are material forms, and all the lives which subsist about bodies. Hence, also, the Trojans are called genuine (ithageneis). For all the lives which subsist about bodies, and irrational souls, are favourable and attentive to their proper matter. On the contrary, the Greeks are rational souls, coming from Greece, i.e. from the intelligible into matter. Hence, the Greeks are called foreigners (Epeiloudes) and vanquish the Trojans, as being of a superior order."