Professor Edith Hall

Doesn't excuse it, but I think that the Iliad at a subconscious level is letting us know they knew this was a problem.

Doesn't excuse it, but I think that the Iliad at a subconscious level is letting us know they knew this was a problem.

Doesn't excuse it, but I think that the Iliad at a subconscious level is letting us know they knew this was a problem.

Yes, I think so. I think you have to read it a bit against the grain and you have to, as I say, go for what literary critics call its political unconscious. But it's absolutely there, the amount of the trees of Ida that must have been cut down to keep that war going.

Yes, I think so. I think you have to read it a bit against the grain and you have to, as I say, go for what literary critics call its political unconscious. But it's absolutely there, the amount of the trees of Ida that must have been cut down to keep that war going.

Yes, I think so. I think you have to read it a bit against the grain and you have to, as I say, go for what literary critics call its political unconscious. But it's absolutely there, the amount of the trees of Ida that must have been cut down to keep that war going.

And it's got this incredibly precious fir tree. There's only a few left. It only grows in that area of the world. And it's called the subspecies. Abies is the fir or pine. But it's called the subspecies Trojan horse by botanists because they assume it was. And the fight for the survival of that forest, which is now only at the very top of the mountain, is on now. So we're still living.

And it's got this incredibly precious fir tree. There's only a few left. It only grows in that area of the world. And it's called the subspecies. Abies is the fir or pine. But it's called the subspecies Trojan horse by botanists because they assume it was. And the fight for the survival of that forest, which is now only at the very top of the mountain, is on now. So we're still living.

And it's got this incredibly precious fir tree. There's only a few left. It only grows in that area of the world. And it's called the subspecies. Abies is the fir or pine. But it's called the subspecies Trojan horse by botanists because they assume it was. And the fight for the survival of that forest, which is now only at the very top of the mountain, is on now. So we're still living.

the aftermath of the rapacious attitude to natural resources that is expressed in this hyper-consumption that's described with glory in the Iliad.

the aftermath of the rapacious attitude to natural resources that is expressed in this hyper-consumption that's described with glory in the Iliad.

the aftermath of the rapacious attitude to natural resources that is expressed in this hyper-consumption that's described with glory in the Iliad.

Well, I think it can actually help us because we will see that these problems have been going on for 3,000 years and more. I think the Anthropocene started with the invention of bronze, of metallurgy. Before metallurgy, you couldn't really do colonial warfare. You can't do siege warfare by blowing darts out of fennel sticks, throwing ceramics. You can't do it. You had to have metal.

Well, I think it can actually help us because we will see that these problems have been going on for 3,000 years and more. I think the Anthropocene started with the invention of bronze, of metallurgy. Before metallurgy, you couldn't really do colonial warfare. You can't do siege warfare by blowing darts out of fennel sticks, throwing ceramics. You can't do it. You had to have metal.

Well, I think it can actually help us because we will see that these problems have been going on for 3,000 years and more. I think the Anthropocene started with the invention of bronze, of metallurgy. Before metallurgy, you couldn't really do colonial warfare. You can't do siege warfare by blowing darts out of fennel sticks, throwing ceramics. You can't do it. You had to have metal.

Metal required all that unbelievable amount of wood. It also required obscene working conditions for slaves, including children, in mines. It's kind of the turning point. I think the Iliad is the poem of the moment our decline started.

Metal required all that unbelievable amount of wood. It also required obscene working conditions for slaves, including children, in mines. It's kind of the turning point. I think the Iliad is the poem of the moment our decline started.

Metal required all that unbelievable amount of wood. It also required obscene working conditions for slaves, including children, in mines. It's kind of the turning point. I think the Iliad is the poem of the moment our decline started.

So although it's glorious and wonderful and I want everybody to read it, I think we can read it in a new tragic way that might inspire us to go out and fight for our planet. I want us to use the warfare in the Iliad to fight for our planet.

So although it's glorious and wonderful and I want everybody to read it, I think we can read it in a new tragic way that might inspire us to go out and fight for our planet. I want us to use the warfare in the Iliad to fight for our planet.