Great Books

The Iliad

January 2, 1971

The Iliad

January 2, 1971

Three thousand years old, and still the least sentimental book ever written about war. Everything written about combat since has had to get past it.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

January 1, 1971

The Epic of Gilgamesh

January 1, 1971

The oldest poem we have was lost for two thousand years and dug out of the sand in the 1850s. A king who has everything a man can have, and...