Combat & Classics Ep. 62 Homer’s “Iliad” Book 5 (opens in new tab)

We’ve reached Book 5, and Diomedes isn’t playing around. He even stabs Ares himself. Brian, Shilo, and Jeff ask: what does it mean to have a war in which men and gods fight one another? We consider whether war is an uncanny world where the gods can be wounded, where men act like gods and gods act like men, and Continue Reading … The post Combat & Classics Ep. 62 Homer’s “Iliad” Book 5 first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.