A new translation of the Iliad of Homer is cause for a general celebration, especially when the translator is Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania.
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A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.
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The 2024-25 academic year officially began on Tuesday, Sept. 3 with the first day of classes and the annual Convocation ceremony and community picnic.
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With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to...
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The latest translation of the epic poem by the British classicist Emily Wilson, which is remarkable since it is the first translation by a woman.
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The New College Liberal Arts program is for those who wish to learn how to think, not what to think. The great ideas covered in this program have been the...
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Rough but edited lecture transcript. Part of Econ 135: The History of Economic Growth course unit 1. Introduction...
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With 'The Geography of the Imagination,' the great critic invited his readers into a world of forever-expanding meanings, resonances—and joy.
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The doctrine of the social Trinity shifts our priority from barren individuality to abundant community. Our natural tendency in the West is to think of...
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Helping Humpday is the Wednesday Street Prophets Coffee Hour. It was created for us by bfitzinAR and was taken over by Dixiecollie, who also left suddenly.
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