Quotes by : Caroline Alexander

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory,....

Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example,....

This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of....

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero.....