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Bridgewater Review Volume 2 | Issue 2 Article 13 Mar-1984 Research Note: A New Perspective on R evenge and Justice in Homer J udith Stanton Bridgew ater State College Recommended Citation Stanton, Judith (1984). Research Note: A New Perspective on Revenge and Justice in Homer. Bridgew ater Review, 2(2), 26-27. Availa le at : /br_rev/vol2/iss2/13 This item is availa le as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Cultural Commentary Continued RESEARCH NOTE table for more moves, brings it out a third time for a last look and then manipulates it for the last time under the table, finally A New Perspective on Revenge achieving cubical perfection. Is this game playing spirit, native to all of and Justice in Homer us, at the heart of mathematics? Is Judith Stanton mathematics a sort of game, albeit with Assistant Professor of English serious applications? I think that it is. I am reminded of Jacob Bronowski who Most of us are aware that our idea of considers this question in his beautiful work, justice comes largely from Ancient Greece. so optimistic for mankind, The Ascent of But we might be surprised at how old Greek Man. At one point Bronowski is explaining justice really is. Classical Athens (490·323 symmetry in nature and art. He takes us to B.C.), to which we ow