Posts Tagged ‘Homer’
Parks’ ‘Father’ a Conversation-Starter at Intrepid
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is a complex, three-hour, work to unravel, and director Christy Yael-Cox and her Intrepid company do an admirable job with the unraveling…
Read More‘An Iliad’ is Even Richer the Second Time
To say that war is hell is to speak a cliché, but to say that war is poetry sounds intriguing. Until, of course, you stop to think and realize that some of the oldest extant literature is actually poetry about war…
Read MoreWar Is Always With Us
It took humanity a while to figure out war. Archeologists dig up pits full of slaughtered families. Geneticists find some tribes flourished while others vanished. But this might be mere jostling. War didn’t hit the Big Time until it found its historian. Around the 6th Century B.C., somebody wrote down the ancient oral tales,…
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