“During the war,” the student told me, “I kept falling asleep at critical, dangerous moments, as if my body were shutting down rather than face what my mind sensed was coming. One of the hardest parts of processing a war is reckoning with the harm soldiers have themselves inflicted. One of the hardest things about soldiers’ trauma, my students have told me, is that they no longer recognise themselves. Three thousand years after they were composed, the Iliad and The Odyssey still seem able to give their readers both. He has been teaching The Iliad and The Odyssey since the institution’s opening in 2013 and is writing a book about teaching Homer in wartime