Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book was about the work of Professor Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati, who had come across 600 tablets while excavating the site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious that Knossos on the island of Crete and Pylos on the mainland of Greece had some close connection. But scholars have long assumed that the Achaeans were illiterate, for Homer gives little real indication that...
...makes what's on-beat take a beating, and Broadway seem a little backward. The Golden Apple transports the Trojan War set, with considerable irreverence, to the U.S. around 1900-specifically, to a small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) and after a lot of commotion comes home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water...
...nice turn-of-the-century American atmosphere, has some pleasantly lyrical snatches and brightly mocking ditties. John Latouche's words are for the most part gay, ingenious and witty. There are weak spots. The show at times is a bit fancy, at others a bit cute; and the Iliad yields less rewarding home-town stuff than the Odyssey does hotcha...
Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
...Odysseus v. Aias, from The Iliad...