Laurie Kohn: I was thrilled and kind of terrified when Greg Nash emailed to say he'd like to join the two of us for a conversation. "It just warms my old heart," Laurie says as she reunites with her former Harvard professor. The Happiness Lab explores what we can learn about regulating our anger from Homer's famous epic, The Elite.
Achilles has anger issues. The great Greek warrior sits out most of the Trojan War because he's angrily sulking. When he finally enters battle, he does so in a fit of rage that causes him to commit atrocities and bring dishonor on himself.
So what can we learn from this angry character in Homer's epic poem, The Iliad? With the help of Harvard classics expert Greg Nagy and anger counsellor Dr Faith Harper, we look at how anger can creep up on us and what we can do to defuse this sometimes explosive emotion.
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