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6 giorni fa · A performer of epic poetry was known as an ἀοιδός (aoidós), which literally means “singer” or “bard,” and the Homeric epics themselves regularly describe the process of performing epic poetry as “singing.”. The Iliad and the Odyssey are not composed in the ordinary spoken Greek of their original time and place.
5 giorni fa · Beate Dignas (ed.) Bloomsbury (2024) p/b 209pp £23.99 (ISBN 9781350408579) Remembering and recording constitute the very stuff of history but it is only in the last twenty years or so that their modes and uses have become a self-conscious area of historiography. ‘Memory studies’ is now well on the way to becoming an established discipline ...
5 giorni fa · I am teaching a course called “ The Homeric Odyssey and the Human Mind ” (virtually) for Roundtable at the 92nd Y starting on October 17th. It will be three sessions. Here’s the description from Roundtable: This three-part course on Homer’s Odyssey builds on the ancient
3 giorni fa · Homer describes Hektor’s first spear chuck in a way that supports a heptatonic interpretation. The spear “struck the sevenfold-ox-hide terrible shield of Aias / in the uttermost bronze, which was the eighth layer upon it, / and the unwearying bronze spearhead shore its way through six folds / but was stopped in the seventh ox-hide” (VII.245–48).
3 giorni fa · The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey were likely written down in Homeric Greek, a literary mixture of Ionic Greek and other dialects, probably around the late 8th or early 7th century BC.
3 giorni fa · Contents. Homeric Hymns. The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised:Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. [ a ] The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on ...
2 giorni fa · This session will focus on Books 13-16 of the Iliad. We will take our time to savor the experience of this poem, and therefore, expect to be finished by November. Though codified in writing by Homer in the eighth century BC, the story of The Iliad ( and Odyssey) had been handed down orally over previous
