Homerica
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ian Spoor for alerting me to this one which is coming up on BBC4: Episode Six of a thirty-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. In 1933, a young classics scholar called Milman Parry made a journey through the hill villages of the Balkans to record…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Bret Mulligan for alerting us to this one … the incipit of a piece in Newsworks: “When he had the bow in his hands, the godlike Odysseus, Easily did stretch the string, and shoot through the axe-heads: Then he sprang up on the platform, and poured out the arrows before…
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This series is actually OUP hyping a new translation of the Iliad, but there’s a pretty good intro to Homer etc in these segments. The official intro: Barbara Graziosi and Anthony Verity introduce their Oxford World’s Classics edition of Homer’s ‘The Iliad’. In this first part, they discuss the text itself.
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The Digital Classicist people are definitely in the forefront of putting conferences online … over the next few days we’ll post their latest efforts (the conference was in December 2012), beginning with this one, which includes the abstract to the talk, a video of the talk, and video of the discussion afterwards: Prof. Jenny Strauss…
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I seem to have missed this UPenn video last week: Was there a Trojan War? Assessing the Evidence from Recent Excavations at Troy In the course of the latest campaign of excavations at Troy, in northwestern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a wealth of evidence that enables us to situate the site within the political and…
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