The Iliad

“we know troy because of the homeric poems the iliad the odyssey ”

“if you look uh uh just homer uh the greeks um if you look at the older homer which is the iliad ”

“he was reading the odyssey and the iliad ”

“let's take uh the iliad versus the odyssey ”

“the iliad and the odyssey are stories of of heroes ”

“why is the emotional weight coming from the iliad so of course i went then go back to the game ”

“did you remember the iliad the iliad mmhmm was um passed down um through story over generations ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“and in this new series we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of homer the iliad and the odyssey ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“every episode i pair up a top historian with a fantastic comedian and we have a lovely funny fascinating chat about a different subject from world history and in this new series we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of homer the iliad and the odyssey ”

“who could memorize the iliad or the odyssey now ”

“we have the iliad and the odyssey ”

“aeschylus' trilogy orestia is a side plot of the iliad and the odyssey that you you briefly see in the odyssey ”

“wilson was awarded a prestigious macarthur fellowship and after she followed with the translation of the iliad a guggenheim fellowship ”

“wilson was awarded a prestigious macarthur fellowship and after she followed with the translation of the iliad a guggenheim fellowship ”

“and i think what we find really interestingly is that after the odyssey and the iliad come into being ”

“and they were reading the iliad together ”

“this is the second installment of the econ talk book club on the iliad by homer ”

“that the poet homer wrote about in the iliad ”

“and the odyssey is a a poem it's an epic poem and it is the sequel to the iliad and the iliad told the story of the trojan war ”

“even aristotle quotes the iliad ”

“now that's actually not from the odyssey it's from the iliad as translated by robert fagel's ”

“around the iliad by homer ”

“it ranks alongside homer's other great poem the iliad uh composed in the eighth or the seventh century b c ”

“Patroclus' funeral games in Homer's Iliad,'cause all the Romans From the second century BC onwards, are educated in Greek as well as Latin”

“the troys that we think now are interesting because they roughly speaking fit the dates of the odyssey and the iliad are troys six and seven ”

“we'll be doing an e talk book club around the iliad by homer ”

“they won't be doing an econ talk book club around the iliad by homer ”

“if we have to remember that the like the iliad and the odyssey were oral traditions you know this book that we were forced to read in school that's a that's like in eight hundred pages ”

“famously obsessed with homer and aristotle is said to have given alexander an annotated copy of the iliad which he took with him on campaign ”

“quote and i love it it says it was from odysseus from the the iliad it says um he said don't listen to your enemies look at them ”

“they they read the iliad and the odyssey and so forth ”

“read the odyssey and the iliad ”

“they might be reading the iliad or the odyssey ”

“you read the iliad and you feel the emotion of some of these heroes just as you feel today ”

“the fact that i can read the iliad two thousand year old story written a different language in a different time ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“and his map was homer was the iliad and the odyssey ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“and by great books he meant homer's the iliad ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“so you read the iliad and the odyssey you can see that there's a narrative approach ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“he read homer all of his life and he knew the passages by heart ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“and then he's gonna quote there's just a great quote here from homer in the iliad ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s