![]() ![]() I would also add, more specifically, that I think the culture is ready for the kind of love story that transcends gender and time. It is all there, in Homer too: our past, present and future, inspiration and condemnation both. ![]() Every day on the front page of the newspaper is an Iliad of woes-from the self-serving Agamemnons to the manipulative, double-speaking Odysseuses, from the senseless loss of life in war to the brutal treatment of the conquered. These stories have endured this long, moving generation after generation of readers-they must, still, have something important to tell us about ourselves. And especially at this fractured and shifting historical moment, I think people are looking back to the past for insight. ![]() ![]() To borrow Ben Jonson, they are not “of an age, but for all time.” Human nature and its attendant folly, passion, pride and generosity has not changed in the past three thousand years, and is always relevant. But the stories of ancient Greece-the Iliad foremost among them-are exactly what this cliché was made for. Q.: Do the Greek myths really matter in our modern world of cutting-edge technology and tenuous global politics?Ī.: It can be a cliché to call a story timeless. ![]()
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