Professor Edith Hall

It's very apocalyptic in its imagination. Strangely, a lot of this happens in similes, but you have countless similes that the soldiers descended on the other side like a wildfire sweeping over a mountain, or they rise up like a wave that crashes and destroys everything in its path. earthquake sort of stuff. One mention is of terrible hunger, famine. There's only one, and that's in the last book.

It's very apocalyptic in its imagination. Strangely, a lot of this happens in similes, but you have countless similes that the soldiers descended on the other side like a wildfire sweeping over a mountain, or they rise up like a wave that crashes and destroys everything in its path. earthquake sort of stuff. One mention is of terrible hunger, famine. There's only one, and that's in the last book.

But I think that there are poetically encoded memories of the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations with their tsunamis and fires and famines and displacements. I think that we're talking a post-apocalyptic poem. The Greeks of the 8th century could see around them ruins of these great Mycenaean palaces.

But I think that there are poetically encoded memories of the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations with their tsunamis and fires and famines and displacements. I think that we're talking a post-apocalyptic poem. The Greeks of the 8th century could see around them ruins of these great Mycenaean palaces.

But I think that there are poetically encoded memories of the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations with their tsunamis and fires and famines and displacements. I think that we're talking a post-apocalyptic poem. The Greeks of the 8th century could see around them ruins of these great Mycenaean palaces.

They've probably even seen bits of Linear B. We know from tomb findings that they discovered relics of the bronze armor because they're now living in the Iron Age, but they've discovered these bronze relics and so on. So they're construing, as we might, what it was like to be in the age of King Arthur from a handful of medieval artifacts and scraps of poetry, that kind of thing.

They've probably even seen bits of Linear B. We know from tomb findings that they discovered relics of the bronze armor because they're now living in the Iron Age, but they've discovered these bronze relics and so on. So they're construing, as we might, what it was like to be in the age of King Arthur from a handful of medieval artifacts and scraps of poetry, that kind of thing.

They've probably even seen bits of Linear B. We know from tomb findings that they discovered relics of the bronze armor because they're now living in the Iron Age, but they've discovered these bronze relics and so on. So they're construing, as we might, what it was like to be in the age of King Arthur from a handful of medieval artifacts and scraps of poetry, that kind of thing.

So I think the apocalyptic tone is partly memory. But I've argued in this new book, which I'm going to plug, called Epic of the Earth, reading Homer's Iliad and the fight for a dying world. I also think they betray at some level that they knew that they were chopping down too many trees. And they certainly were.

So I think the apocalyptic tone is partly memory. But I've argued in this new book, which I'm going to plug, called Epic of the Earth, reading Homer's Iliad and the fight for a dying world. I also think they betray at some level that they knew that they were chopping down too many trees. And they certainly were.

So I think the apocalyptic tone is partly memory. But I've argued in this new book, which I'm going to plug, called Epic of the Earth, reading Homer's Iliad and the fight for a dying world. I also think they betray at some level that they knew that they were chopping down too many trees. And they certainly were.

The deforestation of the periphery of the Mediterranean began in the Bronze Age for three reasons. One was you actually just needed a lot of wood to build all those thousand ships. and all the watch fires and all the palisades. The second was that they cleared land at a disastrous rate for pasturage, all those cattle.

The deforestation of the periphery of the Mediterranean began in the Bronze Age for three reasons. One was you actually just needed a lot of wood to build all those thousand ships. and all the watch fires and all the palisades. The second was that they cleared land at a disastrous rate for pasturage, all those cattle.

The deforestation of the periphery of the Mediterranean began in the Bronze Age for three reasons. One was you actually just needed a lot of wood to build all those thousand ships. and all the watch fires and all the palisades. The second was that they cleared land at a disastrous rate for pasturage, all those cattle.

We're facing that now with how much land you need for cattle compared with growing lentils or whatever. And the third reason, and perhaps the most important one, was smelting. The amount of wood you need to make even one piece of bronze armor in terms of the furnaces and the fires is unbelievable.

We're facing that now with how much land you need for cattle compared with growing lentils or whatever. And the third reason, and perhaps the most important one, was smelting. The amount of wood you need to make even one piece of bronze armor in terms of the furnaces and the fires is unbelievable.

We're facing that now with how much land you need for cattle compared with growing lentils or whatever. And the third reason, and perhaps the most important one, was smelting. The amount of wood you need to make even one piece of bronze armor in terms of the furnaces and the fires is unbelievable.

So the Iliad is the expression of an age when the Greeks were pushing ever further afield, cutting down ever more forests. Whenever they ran out, they would just move further east, further south, further north, cut down more forests. to feed this, and they believed they were infinite, but they had no knowledge that there were limits to Earth.

So the Iliad is the expression of an age when the Greeks were pushing ever further afield, cutting down ever more forests. Whenever they ran out, they would just move further east, further south, further north, cut down more forests. to feed this, and they believed they were infinite, but they had no knowledge that there were limits to Earth.

So the Iliad is the expression of an age when the Greeks were pushing ever further afield, cutting down ever more forests. Whenever they ran out, they would just move further east, further south, further north, cut down more forests. to feed this, and they believed they were infinite, but they had no knowledge that there were limits to Earth.