Word: iliad
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...SCHLIEMANN'S "DISCOVERY" 120 YEARS ago of mythic Troy has always gone into the close-but-no-cigar category. Excavating on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so outsize a legend...
...softball tournament, beer flowing everywhere, nude waterslides, and the Iliad toss-everyone taking Freshman English goes to the top of their dorm and throws out their copy of the Iliad," says Andrew M. West, a Reed College sophomore...
...after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist has so far based anything in Darger, which is just as well; in today's America, he would be arraigned for child abuse faster than you could say Lewis Carroll...
Higbie will be teaching four courses this year: Greek 103, "Hesiod" and Greek 105, "Aristophanes" this semester, and Latin 104, "Ovid" and Greek 4, "Selections from Homer's Iliad" in the spring...
Higbie's own interests center on the history of oral literature, Homeric poetry in particular. She is the author of two books, "Measure and Music: Enjambement and Sentence Structure in the Iliad" (1990), and the forthcoming "Patterns of Naming in Homer...