“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share
“Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority.” — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.” — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which… — 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 epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths,… — 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 Image
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 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… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
