Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five Kings, Part I (adapted by Orson Welles from Shakespeare's King Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he remarked: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In Boston last week, when Orson Welles presented the first half of his much-touted, much-trimmed version of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, certain it was that-pretty or otherwise-Welles should not call...
...Books" which, according to its authorities, are the foundation of all our knowledge and culture. It is, roughly, a chronological study of the arts and sciences of the ages, conforming to its supporters' idea of what is the basis for a modern education, and raging temporally from Homer's Iliad to Freud's Principles of Hysteria. There is no latitude of choice, each student being compelled to study four languages, Latin, Greek, French and German, besides the required sciences, mathematics, music, and theology, considered as a speculative science...
...objection was that Leighton, one of the instructors, although generally commended for the interest of his classes was felt to be a little too easy-going on fundamental grammatical mistakes, causing trouble in more advanced courses. Greek A, the course in Homer, devotes the first half year to the Iliad and the second to the Odyssey. Many of the concentrators take the first half of this course and then go on to the second half of Greek B, Athenian Drama, and consider this a good step...
Troy's tale is one of the oldest stories in the world. It has been questioned, sifted, dug into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by poets. Two epics (the Iliad and Odyssey) and a low hill in Turkey, within sight of the Dardanelles, are all that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers...
This writer after four hours on watch in the hot stokehold has rushed topsides to finish Homer's Iliad. Before he completed it a new box of books was brought aboard and then the fun began. Engineers when they heard that the representative of the American Merchant Marine Library Association was on board ran up the engine room ladders two steps at a time. The reason for this, this writer believes, is that engineers are apt to be more philosophically inclined and have more of the "monastic" spirit...