“War – What is it Good For?” in Homer’s Iliad and Four Receptions

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2016

Author

Schein, Seth L.

Book

Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays

Pages

149-170

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place Published

Oxford

Language

English

Edition

Revised and expanded version of an essay published in Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck (eds.), Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2016), 211-228

Chapter

11

Keywords

force
Iliad
Logue, Christopher
Bespaloff, Rachel
Oswald, Alice
war

Annotation

Discussion of Weil and the Iliad and comparison of Weil to Bespaloff, Oswald and Logue

Notes

Revised and expanded version of an essay published in 2016 In Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics , edited by V. Caston and S.-M. Weineck, 211-228. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor