The Iliad

“just Homer, the Greeks, if you look at the older Homer, which is the Iliad, in which Achilles doesn't do it, but the gods get Achilles to do it.”

“because of the words and the grammar. For example, the Iliad, Homer's Iliad, the English text of the Iliad, we'll begin by saying something like, I sing of the wrath of Achilles, the terrible wrath that destroyed so many Greeks.”

“you see this tension between the Iliad and the Odyssey where Homer kind of poses the question what is worth striving after? Achilles died young he traded a long life for eternal glory”