Trickery, Humiliation, Death – and the Timeless Hunger for ‘Honour and Glory’

 DECEMBER 30, 2023 Source ALASTAIR CROOKE One major theme of Homer’s Iliad – which somehow seems as fresh and as vivid today as when first written – is its description of how even the greatest of states in Western civilization fail to reclaim what they lose. “Attempts to repair one loss lead only to more losses”, Emily […]

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