Hobbes’s Iliad: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short?

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Brief Overview

This paper draws on Hobbes’s translation of the Iliad for insight into the relationship between the of love of glory and man’s tendency to violence and war.

Author

• Michelle Marie Kundmueller, Old Dominion University