Tag Archives: Iliad

Paris, Trump, and Accountability

The way Priam enables Paris is similar to how the GOP enables Trump. Utter disaster awaits.

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On Homer and Rethinking My Father

The famous scene of Hector and Andromache has given me a new perspective on my father’s fatalism.

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Odysseus’s Authoritarian Power Play

Homer shows the dynamics of authoritarianism at work in an “Iliad” incident where Odysseus disciplines a critic of the Greek mission.

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Homer’s Masterclass in Leadership

Homer’s “Iliad” functions as a leadership clinic. So don’t heed Plato’s dismissal of the poet.

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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice

With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.

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The Classics as Teen Survival Guides

Vietnamese immigrant Phuc Tran uses various classics to survive American adolescence.

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Saving the Classics from Ideologues

A Univ. of Chicago classicist fears the alt-right will appropriate the classics for their own ends.

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The Dangers of Emotional Identification

In which I push back against an article warning about emotional identification with literary characters.

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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice

When Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice,” it now appears (judging by Australia and Greenland) that everyone is right.

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