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...exam requires students to be able to translate and analyze a variety of canonical Latin and Greek texts on sight, including portions of Herodotus’ Histories, Homer’s Iliad, and Virgil’s Eclogues...
...This goes all the way back to the beginning. According to The Iliad, it was not the endless wealth dreamt of by Agamemnon, but rather Helen’s beauty, that triggered the Trojan War. In a similar vein, the Greeks’ greatest hero, Achilles, was not motivated by rationality; more than anything, he sought kleos, an untranslatable word describing war glory, honor, and a victory over death through future remembrance. Closer to our days, similar pursuits driven by ideologies ranging from nationalism to religious enthusiasm have resulted in real tragedies later described as “unimaginable...
...some of its recent wars,” says Chase-Levenson. “We’ll have half the cast in togas and masks and half in modern clothing.”Chase-Levenson asserts that the production is not just about Homer’s Iliad.“We’re putting on a modern drama that happens to be set in ancient Troy,” he says. “We’ve got an amazing cast, a terrific staff, and it’s a great story, even if you already...
...Hector tells Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, who ‘must see to the fighting,’” explains the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, in the opening of a breezy 1990 tract entitled “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives...
...that it's, you know, pretty great stuff. Here's the demise of Euryalus: "He writhes in death/ as blood flows over his shapely limbs, his neck droops,/ sinking over a shoulder, limp as a crimson flower/ cut off by a passing plow." Fagles published terrific translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have been gobsmacked by his Virgil. They're all quite popular too, part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture has lately offered up for mass consumption two new histories of the Peloponnesian...