A classics professor is haunted by the co-optation of his discipline by the so-called "alt-right," toxic masculinity and other self-styled “defenders of Western civilization.”
The Greeks defend their ships from the Trojans in Alfred Churchill’s Story of the Iliad, 1911.
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A central idea in the Iliad - a poetic work focused on the war for Troy - is the inevitability of death. The poem held a special place in antiquity, and has resonated in the millennia since.
Broken hearts: Helen and Menelaus on a vase, Louvre.
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