Homer: A Home For The Epic Poet
- scholars-stage.org How I Taught The Iliad to Chinese Teenagers
Several years ago I had the chance to lead two seminars with a group of high-performing Chinese high school seniors. Each seminar had between 20-35 kids; each of these students was a graduating sen…
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Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, and the truth behind the world’s greatest literary hoax
www.independent.co.uk The truth behind the world’s greatest literary hoax‘I am not ashamed to own that I think this rude bard of the North the greatest Poet that has ever existed,’ US founding father Thomas Jefferson wrote of the blind 3rd century Scottish poet Ossian, who was almost certainly made up in the 18th century
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Pre-Dorian geography in the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships
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In ‘Ransom,’ David Malouf Retells Priam’s Story From ‘The Iliad’: NYTime Book Review
www.nytimes.com Classic Case of Nobility Meeting Reality (Published 2009)David Malouf’s “Ransom” reimagines the tragic story at the heart of “The Iliad.”
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Homerathon: A Reading of Homer’s Odyssey
nationalhellenicmuseum.org Homerathon Chicago 2023 - National Hellenic MuseumThe National Hellenic Museum and The UIC Department of Classics and Mediterranean StudiesAre Thrilled to Co-host Homerathon: A Reading of Homer’s Odyssey Friday, April 21 2023 10:00 AM – 5:30 PMSaturday, April 22 2023 10:00 […]
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Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation, Book 1, read by Emily Wilson
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Emily Wilson's translation of Iliad should be released September 2023.
Wilson has a great translation of Odyssey, and a great youtube channe. Although I think that the youtube readings are in English I would love to hear Wilson's Homeric Greek.
- www.theguardian.com The Song of Achilles: Miller's tale divides opinion
To some it elegantly evokes the 'chill of antiquity'; to others it's hamfisted and infantile. What's your view of last year's Orange prize winner?
I cried every page through this book. I loved it, and it gave my years of reading Homer a really great dusting off. The author loved the source material and love.
i haven't read Circe. And probably won't. When an author finds a way into me with such vivid sublimity I would rather accept that one golden moment and let everyone else have the rest.
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The Legend of Sarpedon and the Saga of the Archer
www.jstor.org The Legend of Sarpedon and the Saga of the Archer on JSTORMarie Delcourt, The Legend of Sarpedon and the Saga of the Archer, History of Religions, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer, 1962), pp. 33-51
Son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus' Aristeia
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Preface to The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope
www.poetryfoundation.org Preface to The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope | Poetry FoundationHomer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions...
Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad is certainly a translation to read, but likely not the first one to read. His preface is a joy for fans of Homer, though.
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The Iliad translated by Alexander Pope
I just finished Pope's translation of The Iliad. I found it very tight to Homer's ancient Greek of the five translations I have read. That said I did not enjoy the Romanization of the Greek gods' names.
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How a Bold Young American Changed the Way Scholars Think About Homer
An essay about the development of Homeric studies and Milman Parry.
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"Balkanizing Homer: An Albanian novel raises questions about the Greek epics." --March 1, 1998, The New York Times Books
How do different parts of contemporary/modern European nation/state relate to Homer ? One novel would like to add to the discourse.
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Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him.
sententiaeantiquae.com Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read HimIn the recent poll prompted by Dio Chrysostom’s anecdote of Philip asking which hero Alexander would be, Odysseus won by a bit of a landslide. I can’t say this completely surprises me, …
As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.
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Bellerophon's Tablet and the Homeric Question in the Light of Oriental Research.
www.jstor.org Bellerophon's Tablet and the Homeric Question in the Light of Oriental Research on JSTORNathaniel Schmidt, Bellerophon's Tablet and the Homeric Question in the Light of Oriental Research, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 51 (1920), pp. 56-70
There is just one moment in the Iliad that writing or a hint of what writing was mentioned, and it is a direct reference to the ancient Greek hero Bellerophon's tales. How does this relate to the Homeric Question ?