In our own time, rather than fear of death, fear of loss looms large – fear of isolation, humiliation, status; fear of poverty; fear of change. Elsewhere in “the Aeneid,” a character in the underworld ...
The Greeks defend their ships from the Trojans in Alfred Churchill’s Story of Homer’s Iliad, 1911. A would-be burglar entered an apartment, saw a book on Homer’s Iliad, and made himself comfortable so ...