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...Did he compose expecting audiences to cheer for Helen’s self-flagellation? Reading The Iliad in the present, one wonders if Helen was the Meghan Markle to Homer’s Jeremy Clarkson....
...Here, in unrelenting high-definition, a mix of real celebrities — Cardi B, Elliot Page, Isabelle Huppert — assumed camera-friendly poses alongside unwitting journalists, to laughter and cheers inside the...
...Perched on one of the rolling hills that undulate across the Peloponnese towards the western coast, it was named by Homer himself as a place that Odysseus once visited....
...If I ever said the same about my urban neighbours, those same councils would cheer when I was prosecuted. What is a virtue in human beings, is a vice, in their view, in a tree....
...Homer’s Odyssey sees Odysseus menaced by the Cyclops, Sirens, the six-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis....
...From the first reading of War and Peace, it becomes clear that Tolstoy writes with the breadth and scope of Homer....
...Juliet Noble of Shepherds ice cream parlour thinks the festival’s fame has helped the town the other 51 weeks: Hay has now become a centre for the new holiday-at-homers....
...They cheer and chant through a surreal mix of company pep talks and appearances by music and film stars....
...There are no ancient Romans left nowadays to cheer the arrival of one of their very own emperors into the cultural heart of a country that he and they once dominated....
...Most players lose power as they reach their mid-30s, but Bonds’ homer rate with the Giants rose steadily, to 40-plus a year....
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