TITLE: The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War AUTHOR: Caroline Alexander DATE PUBLISHED: 2010 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780143118268 _______________________ DESCRIPTION: "WHAT ARE THE REAL LESSONS OF WAR?The Illiad is celebrated as one of t...
There is a section in Mark Edmundson’s Why Read? where the author discusses the difference between “literature” – those works of prose and verse that are read and discussed for generations – and what isn’t – those works that may be well written and engaging but don’t have the power or impact that su...
So I have a somewhat guilty secret. I sorta, kinda, like the movie Troy, at least up to the part where Hector gets killed. I know it has its problems, least of all Orlando Bloom as Paris (really, him?), but I still enjoy it.I've always had a thing for the Trojan War. The first "grown up" program ...