![]() ![]() ![]() I think it is probably dangerous to ask a Homerist to tell you about the Iliad, because so often we don’t know where to start, whether it should be in thinking about its relationship with the Odyssey or about what it means to say the word “Homer”. As many of us forget, it ends not with the Trojan Horse or the death of Achilles, but instead with the burial of horse-taming Hektor. ![]() This week, we turn to the most tragic of epics (according to Aristotle, at least), Homer’s IliadĪs everyone knows, the Iliad begins with the rage of Achilles. As our director Paul O’Mahony has put it, since we are “ unable to explore the outside world, we have no option but to explore further the inner one.” The Center for Hellenic Studies , the Kosmos Society and Out of Chaos Theatre has been presenting scenes from Greek tragedy on the ‘small screen’ since the beginning of the US lockdown in March. “May I not die without a fight and without gloryīut after doing something big for men to come to learn about” ![]()
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