Hackett publishes /The Essential Iliad/, in Stanley Lombardo's
translation, which retains a well chosen 1/3 the original, with brief
summaries of the missing bits, along with a good introduction and
apparatus. They also do a one-volume /Essential Homer/, which offers
about 1/2 of each epic (both in the Lombardo translations), along with
apparatus.
Joseph Black
Quoting william oram <[log in to unmask]>:
> Do you have to do both? The whole of the Odyssey is a good deal more
> manageable than the whole of the Iliad. If you have to teach pieces of the
> Iliad, I'd do Books I,II, IX, and XVI to XXIV. Cedric Whitman, Homer and
> the Heroic Tradition is old and the archeological material is probably
> dated, but very teachable. Bill
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Peter Herman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Following in the distinguished William Oram's footsteps, can I ask the
>> equally distinguished list for some help with figuring out how to teach
>> Homer's Illiad and Odyssey in my Introduction to Literature class? As much
>> as I would like to, it is simply not possible to assign the entirety of
>> either book. So, has anyone taught excerpts from these texts to a beginner,
>> non-lit major audience? And if so, which excerpts did you use?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> pch
>>
>>
>> On 4/7/10 2:36 PM, "Colin Burrow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > How about 'Write me the ending (not like Chapman's)'?
>> >
>> > Colin Burrow
>> > Senior Research Fellow
>> > All Souls College
>> > Oxford OX1 5DD
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [mailto:
>> [log in to unmask]] On
>> > Behalf Of David Wilson-Okamura
>> > Sent: 07 April 2010 22:06
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: Paper topics on Hero and Leander
>> >
>> > For undergraduates, I think the surest road is Andrew's question about
>> > ecphrasis: it's obvious when it occurs, but not obvious why it's
>> > there.
>> >
>> > Perhaps another way of framing Andrew's question about delay: was the
>> > poem cut short by accident (e.g., lost pages, the author's death) or
>> > art?
>> >
>> > Epyllion, which Tom mentions, is the subject I'd most like to READ an
>> > essay about. To my knowledge there's no Renaissance theory of it, only
>> > examples. As soon as you say that, of course, someone starts to give
>> > you a lecture on Hellenistic aesthetics. But what is pretty common
>> > knowledge today wasn't common knowledge then. What in his model,
>> > Musaeus, did Marlowe think it was important to imitate? Tasso, I see,
>> > did a translation of Musaeus; did he also write a preface? mention it
>> > in his letters?
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