“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 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 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… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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
