‘an Iliad’: An Ancient War Story For Our Time

Begin at the middle. That’s how Homeric epics work. There’s no throat clearing, no preamble, no prologue. The poet invokes the muses, and then, BAM, there you are: in medias res, in the middle of things, BYO backstory. Read full article >>

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