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Greek epics remind audiences that leaders need to be able to plan for the future based on what has happened in the past. They need to understand cause and effect.
Analyse the great quest of Odysseus with a little 21st-century know how and it’s fascinating what you find out.
Memorial brings Alice Oswald’s poetic retelling of the Iliad to the stage, with its furious indictment of war and its aftermath.
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.”
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.
For over 2,800 years, audiences have grappled with the destructive powers of Helen of Troy – and the toxic legacy lives on.
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Julian Meyrick is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Classics, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History, University of New Brunswick
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Reader, Physics, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor, Physics, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa
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Doctoral Researcher, Physics, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa
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DPhil Candidate in Contemporary English Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
