Word: illiad
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This past summer, Packer and his wife took their children on a trip sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association. Along with graduate students and other Harvard families, they listened to lectures on the Illiad and the Odyssey as they toured the Aegean...
...Cerf's words, the quick laugh category consists of those sequels whose title provides almost the entire joke. Examples of this genre include "2000: A Space Illiad," "Pride and Extreme Prejudice" and "The Library of Yiddish Sequels." Presented as a spoof of pretentious book collections, the "Yiddish Sequels" page contains some of this book's most memorable one-liners. Among the 80 titles: "Oy, Wilderness," "Two Gentile Men of Verona" and "To His Goy Mistress...
...explains that the classics are much more than just well-written literature: "If you focus in on Homeric poetry, one of the oldest forms of poetry in Greece, what you really have is the survival of the fittest, to put it cruelly. And you ask yourself, why did the Illiad and the Odyssey survive, and why did they become the epic for the Greek city-states. What was in them that made them such a universal expression of what it means to be Greek as opposed to barbarian. They are an expression of what it means to be educated, what...
...scene, a burlesque of America's industrial age, will be included as one of six in the play's second act. "The Golden Apple" is a musical which satirizes American society, set within the theme of the Illiad and the Odyssey...
...Memorial Hall, examinations deal tomorrow at from 2 to 3:30 o'clock with the Bible and from 3:45 to 5:15 with Shakespeare. On Wednesday, the tests take up Authors, except Homer and Sophocles, at 2 o'clock. Thursday sees knowledge of the author of the Illiad tested at from 2 to 3 o'clock, and of Sophocles from...