Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek, discussed mainly the conflict of war and peace as it was to be found in the Iliad. Peace he called "certain things one wishes to held on to out of the flux of change," while war was that which wipes away those things most quickly...
...true that the Iliad is The Poem, and the Odyssey is The Other. It may or may not be true that an educated man is one who can read Plato in the original with his feet on the fender. But a man with a degree in Classics is likely never to regret...