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Lee, Bokki. Sit down and eat, said the old Greek: War and Ethics as Antipodean Relation in Richard Flanagans The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Studies in English Language & Literature 46.2 (2020): 111-128. This paper analyzes Richard Flanagans Booker Prize winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, from the perspective of the antipodean relation between war and ethics. Some critics criticize the excessive complexity caused by to too much events and elements featured in the narrative. However, in the novel the line and the circle form the major antipodean relation, and around the symbols many other elements are systematically arranged. Among the oppositional elements I focus on the antipodes of war and ethics. The war in the novel is depicted as the extreme effacement and instrumentalization of individuals for the purpose of building the railroad and ethics as the ultimate cure for the wounds by the unconditional welcoming of the returned Australian soldiers. (Jeonbuk National University)