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The Iliad

Monday | More on The Iliad

4/29/24 Top of mind: More From The Iliad On Saturday, I posted something inspired by something I read in The Iliad. It focuses on an exchange between Agamemnon and Achilles, which takes place very early in Book One of the text. What happens is this: Agamemnon has used

Saturday

4/27/24 Hello from a Saturday afternoon. Whoever you are and wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. Top of Mind I've been reading The Iliad. I just finished book one (of 24), and there is a scene in it that I keep thinking

Reading The Iliad

Here is a short line: the god spread deadly plague throughout the camp, so that the common troops began to die, In 16 words a story is told.