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Transcript: Commentary: How wars in ancient Greece compare to wars today
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- August 25, 2004
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STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
08-25-2004
Commentary: How wars in ancient Greece compare to wars today
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
The ancient Greeks believed the Olympics were an expression of something they called airess(ph), competitive struggle. The Greeks thought airess ruled all of life. The most terrible form of airess was war, described so brutally in Homer's "Iliad."
Mr. DEREK JACOBI (Actor): `Patroclus, stunned by the spear and the gods crashing blow, was weaving back to his own thronging comrades, trying to escape death. Hector waited. Seeing him wounded there with a sharp bronze came rushing into him right across the lines and rammed ...