Tag Archives: warfare

Homer, Anti-War Poet

By Robin Bates | Published: September 2, 2019

Tuesday One of my most satisfying reads in recent years is Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and The Trojan War. Alexander is the kind of writer that I aspire to be: an academic who taps into the meticulous research of other scholars to write for a popular […]

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What Really Happened with Goliath

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2018

In Robert Graves’s version of the David-Goliath story, confident righteousness can get you killed.

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Bolton’s Preventive War, Greek Style

By Robin Bates | Published: March 27, 2018

Incoming national security advisor John Bolton favors preventive war. Euripides describes an egregious act of prevention in the killing of Hector’s child in “The Trojan Women.”

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On Trump’s Cheap Nuclear Bomb Talk

By Robin Bates | Published: August 8, 2016

With Donald Trump talking so casually about the use of nuclear bombs, it is important to remind ourselves how horrific they are. This power Carolyn Forché poem opens our eyes.

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Harry Potter’s Use of Asymmetric Warfare

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2011

In today’s post I link to two very smart articles looking at Harry Potter through the lens of the battle against terrorism and armed conflict as it is conducted in today’s world.

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