“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked prize-grabbing in Book One and even Nestor's rambling… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority.” — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well,… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.” — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and sailing of… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“I have seen Fuji, the most dainty and graceful of all mountains; and also Kinchinjunga: only Michael Angelo among men could have conceived such… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
