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“Part of the Iliad’s brilliance is that it only takes four or five days of the action but you feel like it captures the 10 years’ war as a whole.”
Christopher Pelling, Classicist
“A lot of people who had public school educations, classical educations, might have gone into the First World War thinking that they were fighting Homer’s war.”
Kate McLoughlin, Literary Scholar
“Homer, like Shakespeare, encompassed all humanity in his work, and in The Iliad he encompasses peace as well as war.”
John Gittings, Journalist
Daniel Mendelsohn
Charlotte Higgins
