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Currently Playing: The Iliad for Self-Learners

Close readings cover style, textual history, cultural context, literary influences, and more. errata: Tauplin should be Taplin. For further reading: Matthew Arnold's On the Art of Translating Homer The Cambridge Companion to Homer The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad Twentieth Century Views on Homer, ed. George Steiner C.H. Whitman's Homer and the Homeric Tradition Jasper Griffin's Homer on Life and Death Simone Weil's The Iliad, Or, The Poem of Force Why read the Iliad? 0:00-4:00 The “Homeric Question” 4:00-9:53 What is the Iliad about? 9:53-17:22 Book 1 on Achilles’ rage 17:22-29:00 Book 2 on catalogues and similes 29:00-36:32 Book 3 on similes 36:32-39:49 Books 3-4 on the gods 39:49-48:51 Book 5 Diomedia 48:51-50:00 Book 6 on speeches 50:00-53:58 Books 7-8 on duels 53:58-58:56 Books 7-8 on gifts 58:56-1:01:28 Book 9 Achilles’s refusal 1:01:28-1:05:04 Books 11- 16 1:05:04-1:06:26 Book 16 Patroclus fights 1:06:26-1:21:35 Book 17 on recovering the corpse 1:21:35-1:23:23 Book 18 on Achilles’ Krisis 1:23:23-1:26:18 Book 18 The shield of Achilles 1:26:18-1:36:42 Book 20 on divine councils 1:36:42-1:40:15 On the “grand style” 1:40:15-1:41:35 Book 21 on the supernatural 1:41:25-1:43:06 Book 22 Hector vs Achilles 1:43:06-1:47:43 Alice Oswald’s Memorial 1:47:43-1:49:18 Book 23 on funeral games 1:49:18-1:50:30 Book 24 Priam and Achilles 1:50:30-1:57:17