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Thursday, September 7, 2017

What the Greek Myths Teach Us About Anger in Troubled Times

268 pp. Yale University Press. $30. The very first word in the history of Western literature is “rage” or “wrath.” For that is how Homer’s “Iliad” begins. Composed some time in the eighth century B.C., it starts with a call to the Muse, the ...


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