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The heroes of Homer’s Iliad are eco-warriors battling to protect nature

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par Wayne Mark Rimmer, Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes, University of Manchester

Homer’s Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris’s abduction of the Greek beauty Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships”.

However, the Iliad is hardly a romance. The abduction scene is only alluded…

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