The Iliad is all about that ... and you have to be the best at droning on in the council meetings like Nestor – there are so many different categories of it. And yet there's also so much ...

THE ILIAD, by Homer. Translated by Emily Wilson ... And we listen to the wisdom of Priam and Nestor — Trojan king and Greek leader, both long past fighting age — as they offer advice ...

But “The Iliad” is not, of course ... Elsewhere, she has the elderly Nestor monologue at length about how everything was bigger and better in his day, recalling anecdotes from his youth ...

"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by ...