“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time of war's ugly brutality and what Yeats called its "terrible beauty." The Iliad accepts violence as… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even though life… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
“Zeus in his sphere of power, Aphrodite in hers, are irresistible. To be a god is to be totally absorbed in the exercise of… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image