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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Wednesday Sep 08, 2010
Wednesday Sep 08, 2010
Again a somewhat delayed attack on Books 6 and 9 of the Iliad. Syncretism and varieties of divine power considered. Foreshadowing of the deaths of Patroklos and Hektor. Beginning of discussion of Homeric epithets. Set-ups of the climactic scenes: Honor vs. spoliation of the dead. Hospitality to ambassadors.
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