Homer, Odyssey

Homer, Odyssey

by | Dec 20, 2019

Greece Oral tradition: reconstructed as far back as the second millennium BCEWritten versions: reconstructed as far back as the 6th century BCE Homer, Odyssey §1. The ancient Greek epic known as the Homeric Odyssey is symmetrical with another epic, the Homeric Iliad,...
Teaching World Epics

Teaching World Epics

by | Oct 29, 2023 | Publications

Teaching World Epics offers strategies for teaching epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translation, including Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Beowulf, Giulia Bigolina’s Urania,...

Meschke, Odyssevs

by | Apr 29, 2023

Michael Meschke’s Odysseus – Saga of the Sea (1978) Text: Gösta Kjellin Music: Dómna Samiou Technique: Rod puppets Direction and puppets: Michael Meschke Guest performances: London (Puppet Theatre ’79 Festival) and Waasa in 1979; Palermo and Witten,...

Epic and Evolution

by | May 18, 2022

[The following is a demanding graduate level humanities syllabus designed and taught by Prof. Frederick Turner at the University of Texas at Dallas. Since most of the students had previously taken his more introductory epic course, in this course they could explore...

Mediterranean

by | Mar 31, 2022

Mediterranean “No man has ever yet sailed past us with his dark ship | without staying to hear the sweet sound of the voices that come from our mouths, | and he who listens will not only experience great pleasure before homecoming but will also be far more...
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