Homer, as Joseph Sobran recently pointed out, still has something important to tell us, offering "a permanently disturbing insight into the roles of force, slavery, and death in human existence, expressed in graphic yet poignant images of brutal violence." It’s an insight that resonates especially in sad times such as these. In his column "Bad News From Troy," Sobran stresses what may be learned from the first of the Homeric poems, the Iliad. The story of the war undertaken by a coalition of Greek powers led by King Menelaus against the small kingdom of Ilium, or Troy, may sound familiar … Continue reading The Wisdom of Achilles