Tag Archives: Homer

Paris, Trump, and Accountability

By Robin Bates | Published: March 14, 2023

The way Priam enables Paris is similar to how the GOP enables Trump. Utter disaster awaits.

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On Homer and Rethinking My Father

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2023

The famous scene of Hector and Andromache has given me a new perspective on my father’s fatalism.

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Odysseus’s Authoritarian Power Play

By Robin Bates | Published: February 7, 2023

Homer shows the dynamics of authoritarianism at work in an “Iliad” incident where Odysseus disciplines a critic of the Greek mission.

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Homer’s Masterclass in Leadership

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2023

Homer’s “Iliad” functions as a leadership clinic. So don’t heed Plato’s dismissal of the poet.

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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2022

With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.

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First They Came for Toni Morrison, Then…

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2021

In the right attacks Toni Morrison novels, does this mean that Homer, Dostoevsky, Milton, and Sophocles are next?

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The Classics as Teen Survival Guides

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2021

Vietnamese immigrant Phuc Tran uses various classics to survive American adolescence.

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The Olympics Owe a Debt to Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: July 22, 2021

The modern Olympics owe a debt to poetry.

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Saving the Classics from Ideologues

By Robin Bates | Published: April 28, 2021

A Univ. of Chicago classicist fears the alt-right will appropriate the classics for their own ends.

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