Interpreting Homer

More episodes from "Exploring the classical world - Audio"

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  Exploring the classical world

  7/26/2009

  0:42

  A brief introduction to this album.
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  Interpreting Homer

  7/26/2009

  14:28

  Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey.
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  Homer's people

  7/26/2009

  10:33

  Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv.
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  Homer's world

  7/26/2009

  12:56

  The power of the Gods and the nature of Homeric heroes, including a reading from the original Greek and dramatisations from Odyssey book v.
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  Homer - lost in translation?

  7/26/2009

  14:42

  Comparing and evaluating translations of Homer, focusing on Lattimore, and the difficulties and decisions involved.
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  Homer - translation through recreation

  7/26/2009

  14:36

  Different approaches to recreating the original Homeric experience in prose, poetry and on stage.
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  Catullus - poetic voices

  7/26/2009

  20:10

  The love poetry of Catullus and his place in contemporary Roman society, with readings in Latin and translation.
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  Catullus - political worlds

  7/26/2009

  20:42

  The role of Catullus and his poetry in political and personal rivalries in the late Roman Republic.
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  The Alcaic stanzas of Horace

  7/26/2009

  10:57

  The sounds and rhythms of Latin poetry, focusing on the Alcaic form with readings from Horace's ode 3.6.
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  Exploring Roman elegiac poetry

  7/26/2009

  17:20

  The sounds and rhythms of Roman Elegiac poetry, with readings in Latin and translation.