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‘The Iliad is not merely a distillation of the whole protracted war against Troy but simultaneously an exploration of the heroic ideal in all its self-contradictoriness – its insane and grasping pride, * its magnificent but animal strength, its ultimate if obtuse humanity.’

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:]697-8

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