Ancient Greece Declassified

03 Dying For Immortality in Homer's Iliad w/ Andrew Ford

Oct 20, 2016

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Iliad and Homer

2min

The Legend of Pelea Jo Aquiles

2min

Homer's Poems of the Past

3min

The Role of Rage in the Iliad

2min

The Power of the Gods

2min

The Odyssees

2min

The Myth of the Gods

2min

Lunginus: A Greek of the Roman Period Writing About Literature

2min

10.

The Quarrel Between Agamemnon and Achilles

2min

11.

The Public Relations Crisis of Agamemnon

2min

12.

Nestor and the War of Troy

2min

13.

The Trojan War: A Golden Age of Heroism

2min

14.

Achilles' War Prize Girl

2min

15.

The 10,000 Woes of Achilles and the Trojans

2min

16.

The Morality of the Iliad

2min

17.

Priam and the War Prize Crisis in Agamemon's Book 1

4min

18.

Homer's Tale of Achilles and Priam

2min

19.

The Art of the Iliad

1min

20.

The End of the Trojan War

2min

21.

How to Read the Iliad for the First Time

3min

Andrew Ford of Princeton University joins us for a conversation about the Iliad. What makes it so...epic? And what kind of vision of the world does Homer provide his audiences?

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