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What is the meaning of virtue in a world where the ability to slay men is seen as the greatest good? In the world of Homer, principally in that of the Iliad, values always come into being amid danger and war. What can today’s reader get from that endless celebration of heroes who value their posthumous glory above life, head over heart, and the ties of blood over wisdom? What can we see in a lasting conflict where the gods casually determine the course of human life? What does this epic of war, whose aesthetic is liked to blood and violence, have to say to us today? In The Homeric Battle, Kostis Papagiorgis documents that world and culture, from the body to weapons, the outlook and the basic convictions of those ancient people. This is an enjoyable, forthright account written in a lively style.
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