Lattimore – Protective Arts

KAIROS AND THE GEOMETRY OF TIMING

Aphrodite saves Aeneas from Diomedes supported by Athena

Book Five of the Iliad contains some of the most outrageous acts of combat in all of Greek myth: a mortal wounds a god. Homer opens the Iliad with the anger of Achilles and his retreat from the field of battle. His mother, Thetis, bargains with Zeus, and the war is no longer a simpleContinue reading “KAIROS AND THE GEOMETRY OF TIMING”