In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer’s Iliad: its depictions of anger and grief, of capricious gods and warriors’ bodies, and the sheer narrative force of the great epic of the Trojan War.
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Further Reading in the LRB:
James Davidson: Like a Meteorite
