What is the story of the ‘Wrath, mēnis, of Achilles’? Is kleos aphthiton, undying fame, worth dying for? Troy as a testsite of aretē? What is aretē?!Ī Day in the Life, an aristeia (time of being first, pre-eminent) of a typical hero – Diomedes’ comic and tragic encounters in Book 5 Iliad– some key words running through narrative, for discussion: ‘The World of the Hero’: good title for the A Level Homer and Virgil course book but my teaching notes are all about different worlds – Troy citadel, Greek camp, Calypso’s island, Ithaca, Carthage, the Underworld, site of Rome.Īnd such different heroes, heroes’ mentality, values!Īll layered into dramatic narratives with shifting perspectives, where the battlefield is a place of glorious endeavour and bloody waste, where a Hektor and an Aeneas can fight for heroic status yet be trammelled and trapped where the founding of Rome can both beckon but also cost, where the enthralling storyteller become a bloody revenger. Index A People of the Iliad and Odyssey Index B Greek Key words Index C Themes and Contents ‘Waiting for Odysseus’, ‘From Calypso to Phaeacia’, ‘Odysseus’ Stories’, ‘Return to Ithaca’ ‘Heroic Values, Heroic Values’, ‘Heroic Bonds: Hektor and aidōs, the Wrath of Achilles’
* The Aeneid Weds 11 Jan.-8 Feb.2023 does Virgil translate Homer’s heroes? īOOK The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Trojan War: Tragedy and AftermathReview Journal of Classics Teaching bit.ly/3R0TdV9 ‘ideal companion to Homer and his heroes’ Professor Barry Strauss, Cornellīook Summaries, analysis, key word sections, ‘Layers’, ‘Others’ Stories, Women’s Stories’ * Odysseus the Storyteller, Weds 6 – 7.30pm UK time 5th Oct.-Nov.2022 Email for 40% Book reduction & Teachers’ notes for Literature Cambridge online courses:
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