Homer: Iliad
Fall 2010, Tuesday 10:00 - 11:30 AM

Steven Schroeder

TEXT:

Homer. Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin. 1990.

The Chicago Homer (includes Richmond Lattimore's 1951 translation, in an interlinear edition with the Greek text).

Alexander Pope's translation at Project Gutenberg

Dance of the Muses (A.P. David)

Stanley Lombardo reading Book I of the Iliad in Greek

Homeric Singing: An Approach to the Original Performance

The Performance of Homeric Epic (Didaskalia 3/3)

Homer in Performance (Harvard University Department of Classics)

Excerpts from James Tatum's The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam

Marina Warner's review of Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood, by Laurie Maguire (London Review of Books)

9/21: Overview/Introduction
9/28: Books 1-3
10/5: Books 4-5
10/12: Books 6-8
10/19: Books 9-10
10/26: Books 11-12
11/2: Books 13-14
11/9: Books 15-16
11/16: Books 17-18
11/23: NO CLASS
11/30: Books 19-21
12/7: Books 22-24
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