Homer’s “Iliad” functions as a leadership clinic. So don’t heed Plato’s dismissal of the poet.
Tag Archives: Iliad
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fire and Ice", "Heat", C. S. Lewis, climate change, extreme weather conditions, Homer, Last Battle, Robert Frost Comments closed
Saving the Classics from Ideologues
A Univ. of Chicago classicist fears the alt-right will appropriate the classics for their own ends.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeneid, classics, culture wars, Homer, Odyssey, Virgil Comments closed
The Dangers of Emotional Identification
In which I push back against an article warning about emotional identification with literary characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Age of Sensibility, Anne Radcliffe, Goethe, Hannah Arendt, Homer, Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Namwali Serpell, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Sorrows of Young Werther Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fire and Ice", Australian wildfires, C. S. Lewis, climate change, Homer, Last Battle, Robert Frost Comments closed
To Avoid War, Look to The Iliad
As we once again hear war’s drum beat, it’s good to return to “The Iliad” and its vision of peace: the Achilles-Priam truce.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Homer, Iran, Middle East, oil strike, Saudi Arabia, war Comments closed
Homer, Anti-War Poet
Tuesday One of my most satisfying reads in recent years is Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and The Trojan War. Alexander is the kind of writer that I aspire to be: an academic who taps into the meticulous research of other scholars to write for a popular […]
Amazon Fires and the Fury of Achilles
Monday Few news items have alarmed and depressed me as much as the burning of the Amazon rain forests, often called the “lungs of the world.” As National Geographic reports The Amazon rainforest—home to one in 10 species on Earth—is on fire. As of last week, 9,000 wildfires were raging simultaneously across the vast rainforest […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Amazon fires, climate change denial, global warming, Homer, Jair Bolsonaro Comments closed
