January 26, 2007 / Volume CXXXIV, Number 2  
SHORT TAKE

The ‘Glory’ of War

FROM HOMER TO BAGHDAD

John Savant

Since the dawn of Western literature, going all the way back to Homer and his sanguinary epics of men in battle, war has captivated poets. And yet the Iliad and the Odyssey, though they cover (...)

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ABOUT THE WRITER

John Savant

John Savant, professor emeritus at Dominican University of California, lives in San Rafael, California.

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