Tag Archives: Iliad

How Lit Inspires Courage and Love

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2023

Fletcher in “Masterworks” argues that epic narrative can boost courage and lyric disclosure can do the same for love.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 8, 2023

Trump has been threatening retribution on his enemies. The Iliad shows the corrosive effects of revenge.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 16, 2023

A visit to an Irish literature museum alerted me to this Patrick Kavanagh about what makes something epic.

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By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2023

War scenes from the Iliad bring to mind the Battle of Bakhmut–especially when it comes to superior Ukrainian intelligence gathering.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 14, 2023

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

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By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2023

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

By Robin Bates | Published: February 7, 2023

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

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2023

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

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2022

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