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"You can win, and still weep": Israeli college students just back from war read the war-suffused Greek classics very differently
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When I was a freshman at Columbia, a long time ago, we read—as Columbia students have for a century—the Iliad and the Odyssey in our very first semester. I was an eighteen year old kid from a nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood. I made my way through the books and more or less understood them—or so I thought—but given my fortunate and sheltered life until that point, while I “understood” the war scenes in the books, they certainly didn’t touch anything in the core of my soul.
As we hear today, from my…
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