Odyssey
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From the Shorthorn: Students get the opportunity to recite one of the greatest poems in history at Homerathon, senior in history Erin Lynch said. The goal of the reading of Homer’s The Odyssey is to celebrate not only the text but where it comes from and what it does, she said. “It allows us to celebrate…
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We’ve had this nuttiness before and once again, it comes from the Greek Reporter: Dr. Enrico Mattievich, a retired Professor of Physics from the UFRJ, Brazil, suggested in 2011 that Odysseus’s journey to the Underworld took actually place in South America. The river Acheron was the Amazon, after a long voyage upstream Odysseus met the…
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Just this a.m. in our Explorator newsletter we were mentioning how looting of antiquities was funding the revolution in Syria … and now my spiders bring in some horrible news from AFP via the Global Post: At least 18 ancient mosaics depicting scenes from Homer’s “The Odyssey” have been stolen in northern Syria, the culture…
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A different approach (i.e. online) to a Festschrift over at the Center for Hellenic Studies: Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus oblatum … a pile of Homer-related articles, as one might suspect
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Image via Wikipedia Once upon a time, there was almost an annual event of some guy coming up with a new theory about where Homer’s Odyssey or Iliad really took place … haven’t had one for quite a while, but in the Toronto Star I was gobsmacked to read this one: The first thing to…
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