Homerica
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Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective. By Lowell Edmunds. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 430. Hardcover, $49.50. ISBN 978-0-691-16512-7 Reviewed by Henry V. Bender, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia Fascination with the name, the person, and the myth of Helen is epic and universal. Inspirations, derivations,…
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Preface: years and years ago, my first foray into ‘ancient history newsletters’ was a thing called The Ancient World on Television (AWOTV). It was very popular, but unfortunately over time, the stations which purported to be presenting ‘history’ documentaries (e.g. the History Channel) became more interested in ‘reality’ shows and it became increasingly frustrating trying…
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Nice little opEd in the Irish Times by Helen Meany on the enduring appeal of the Iliad … here’s the first bit: Amid the remembrance of the first World War, a poignant detail emerges. Many soldiers went to the Western Front carrying a copy of Homer’s Iliad. One soldier, Patrick Shaw-Stewart, inscribed a poem of…
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Stephen B. Quinlan, The “Iliad”, the Athlete and the Ancient Greek Polis: A Descriptive Study of Homer’s “Iliad” as Hero Myth via Recherche uO Research A pdf is available …
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This past weekend the Journal (Ireland) had a feature on an interactive map of Odysseus’ travels which had just been created by Gisele Mounzer … I can’t get it to actually come up to test out the interactivity (which is probably a function of our school’s security measures), but you might want to check out…
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