Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Butler did not say that Homer was a woman. He wrote a learned and sober book in demonstration of the strong possibility that the Odyssey as opposed to the Iliad was written by a woman. His hypothesis is all the more remarkable in that he does not seem to have come across the classical reference charging Homer with having stolen the substance of the Odyssey from a woman writer called Phantasia. Butler also wrote an extremely interesting book on Shakespeare's Sonnets; it was Butler who started the close scrutiny of the homosexual element in them...
Second honors, and the first Boylston Prize went to Laird McK. Ogle '37, for his recitation in Greek of Hector's farewell to Andromache from the sixth book of Homer's Iliad. Both these winners receive $50 each...
Particularly interesting among the speeches will be a selection from the "Iliad", given by Laird McK. Ogle '37. This is the first time since 1886 that a competitor has offered a selection in Greek. In that year George Santayana '86 won second prize with a selection from the same work...
...Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry," 1935; and in 1930 he was co-editor of the Oxford Book of Greek Verse...
Died. Paul Shorey, 7, classicist, long-time head of the University of Chicago's Greek Department (1896-1927); after long illness following a paralytic stroke; in Chicago. Dr. Shorey was a member of his university's" original faculty (1892), could recite from memory the Iliad's 15,693 lines...