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Insidious Inception?

The Beginning of His Trouble

Time, Feet, and Serious Wounds

Dolon and Achilles; Dolon AS Achilles

Homeric Redshirts and Iliad 10

Night Raids and Gimmick Episodes

Achilles Sings the Hero Within

Two Is Company!

Life, Death, and all the Words Between

Stranded in Iliad 8 with Nestor and Diomedes

Wishing the Impossible

Tyranny and the Plot

Give Helen Back!

Erasing the Past

Divine Plots and Human Plans

Mind Reading and Stolen Wits

War Crimes

Structure and Stories

Two Ways to Decline Zeus

All About Athena

Seeing (and Wounding) the Gods

Better than our Fathers!

Long Ago, Far Away

Backing Up the Future

Suffering So Long for this Woman!

Heroic Appearances

(Re-)Starting the Trojan War

Thersites' Body

From Politics to Poetics

The Politics of Rage

Major Themes for Reading and Teaching the Iliad

Prophet of Evils

Reading and Teaching Homer

Speaking of Centaurs:

Homer's Parents, Country, and True Name

99 Homeric Problems

Beginning the Iliad, Once, Twice, and Again

"Why Does the Iliad Begin with Rage?"

The Plan, And Imperfect Translations

Polysymphonic

Heroes Can't Read (But We Can)

All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading Homer's Iliad

The Newest Song?

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