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Another incredibly moving book. Priam goes to Achilles to retrieve his son’s body. “Never beneath my eyelids have my eyes closed since the moment when my dear child died at your hands.… more →
Tom Simard
Poetic Influence No. 3: The Iliad
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wrote 5 days ago: One of the oldest works of Western literature, Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad has … more →
10 Words Derived from Books
wrote 1 week ago: One of the pleasures of blogging is developing a sense of community with other bloggers from around … more →
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
wrote 1 week ago: I was always going to pick up this book once I noticed the recommendation from Donna Tartt on the co … more →
A Summer of Books
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Someone asked me a few weeks ago if I would be reading much this summer. I was stunned at first. Fin … more →
Center for Fiction Recommends Graphic Canon's "Arresting New Perceptions"
wrote 3 weeks ago: Detail from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, adapted by Laura Plansker The Center for Fiction has … more →
Cosmo Magazine and Ovid's Ars Amatoria: Sex hasn't changed in 2,000 years
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m not going to lie, I find Cosmo to be a hilarious magazine and it became even more hilarious the … more →
First Loves: An Iliad at the Paramount, Boston
wrote 3 weeks ago: Photo:Boston Globe After the howls, the reverberating screams, the chants, the recitations, the phys … more →
Bird's Literary Quotes: The Rage of Achilles from Homer's "The Iliad"
wrote 3 weeks ago: Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the … more →
The Opposite of War...
wrote 1 month ago: The Opposite of War Interspecies “love” Thanks for the tender solicitude 1 Dr. Timothy P … more →
Weekend Poetry Readings: WH Auden reads "The Shield Of Achilles"
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wrote 1 month ago: Hi all. Welcome to our regular Sunday afternoon feature, where we find the best poetry reading by th … more →
Reading the greatest stories ever told--The Iliad
wrote 1 month ago: The Iliad is one of the oldest stories in human history. It’s practically the foundation myth … more →
"When Powell and Wolfe arrived at the club..."
wrote 1 month ago: (Note: This post is the forty-fourth installment in my author’s commentary for The Icon Thief, cover … more →
Scene Challenge of the Week
wrote 1 month ago: Well, the play has started. I hope it went well… actually, I’m sure it went well. Anyway … more →
Book Review: The Iliad by Homer
wrote 1 month ago: I read The Iliad Penguin Classic edition. This will contain the whole story, as it is good for me to … more →
191. The Iliad at Bedtime
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wrote 1 month ago: (theminiaturespage.com) I don’t know who looked forward to bedtime more when my son was little, but … more →
Hecuba's Advice To Helen
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wrote 1 month ago: As he changed; I changed– our bodies flattening out like images on a coin rubbed thin by a God … more →
How I Realized I Was A Writer
wrote 1 month ago: “The Adventures of Ulysses”, a painting in relation to the poem and Homer’s The Il … more →
Top 5 Best/Worst Book-to-Movie Adaptations
wrote 1 month ago: Quinn Banford ’15 / Emertainment Monthly Staff The Best! 1. The Godfather: Oh you forgot that … more →
A few thoughts on chapters
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wrote 1 month ago: When you think about it, there’s really no reason that a novel needs to have chapters. Early c … more →
