Word: bespaloff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radiance of life, the bloody darkness of death in war are constantly and insistently mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...
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