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Mentioned in 22 episodes

Iliad

Book • 2010

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Mentioned in 22 episodes

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Dominic Sandbrook
as the great poet whose work casts a shadow over other accounts of the Trojan War.
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6. Troy
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Charlotte Higgins
alongside the Odyssey, noting Virgil's Aeneid is almost in competition with these epics.
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How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard
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Leo Mirani
when comparing the length of the Mahabharata to other epics.
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Below Delhi, the search for India's mythical past
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Ellie Mackin-Roberts
as a source where Hera plays a huge role as a protagonist on the side of the Greeks.
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Hera: Queen of the Gods
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Jack Fowler
in relation to a piece discussing its impact on modern warriors.
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Zeldin’s Drive to Deregulate and the Iliad’s Relevance Today
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Deacon Harrison Garlick
in comparison to Hesiod, highlighting their similarities and differences in style and approach to mythology.
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A Discussion on Hesiod's Theogony
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Jonathan Silver
as one of Homer's epic poems of the Trojan War.
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Ido Hevroni on Teaching Homer in Wartime
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Natalie Haynes
as one of the authors who describes Hera as the foster daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.
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Hera
Mentioned by the speaker as a well-known epic poem in Western culture, in comparison to the Shahnameh.
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Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 1
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Deacon Harrison Garlick
in reference to his translation of the Iliad.
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Iliad: Book 1 | The Rage of Achilles
Mentioned by Jacob Alley as a book that has survived throughout the ages and is still read today.
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Ep. 282 - How to Use The Great Ideas in Your Commonplace Books w/Dr. Jacob Allee
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Edith Hall
regarding Aeneas' role in the Iliad.
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The Aeneid
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Dan Snow
when discussing the time Athens began to take shape.
The Acropolis
Mentioned by Michael Cosmopoulos when talking about the tradition that Homer composed it in the 8th century.
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mentioned when discussing oaths in the Greco-Roman world.
443: Talmudic Matthew — Oaths
Mentioned by Edith Hall as the core of the entire curriculum for every single ancient schoolboy.
Alexandria: The Library
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Leo Mirani
when comparing the length of the Mahabharata to other epics.
Below Delhi, the search for India's mythical past
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Jeffery Rosen
, referring to the translations by Addison and Dryden.
How the Classics Inspired America's Founders
Mentioned as the earliest source where Cassandra appears in literature.
Cassandra: Prophet Of The Modern World?
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Dirk Jongkind
as already a scholarly endeavor in Alexandria in the first century BC.
S5E4: How did the early church handle differences between manuscripts?

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