Emotion, War, and the Iliad

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While leading a discussion of Homer’s Iliad for Tikvah’s advanced institute on “War and Human Nature,” Cornell University’s Barry Strauss observes just what a central role emotions play in this ancient epic and in all wars. Wrath, gall, honor, spiritedness, blind folly—what sort of values are these passions rooted in? What does any of this have to do with war in the modern age?

 

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