Exploring the classical world - Audio Podcast
1) Exploring the classical world
A brief introduction to this album.
2) Transcript -- Exploring the classical world
A brief introduction to this album.
3) Interpreting Homer
Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey.
4) Transcript -- Interpreting Homer
Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey.
5) Homer's people
Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv.
6) Transcript -- Homer's people
Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv.
7) Homer's world
The power of the Gods and the nature of Homeric heroes, including a reading from the original Greek and dramatisations from Odyssey book v.
8) Transcript -- Homer's world
The power of the Gods and the nature of Homeric heroes, including a reading from the original Greek and dramatisations from Odyssey book v.
9) Homer - lost in translation?
Comparing and evaluating translations of Homer, focusing on Lattimore, and the difficulties and decisions involved.
10) Transcript -- Homer - lost in translation?
Comparing and evaluating translations of Homer, focusing on Lattimore, and the difficulties and decisions involved.