Homer Links | Jim O'Hara

A FEW LINKS FOR HOMER’s ILIAD and ODYSSEY

Handout for second day of CLAS 55

Handout for Odyssey Introduction

Blank map Greece and Italy

“My” papyrus (PMich.inv.920-21):
publication:
James J. O’Hara , “Fragment of a Homer-Hypothesis …”
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
56 (1984), pp. 1-9 (10 pages, incl. photo)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20184046

photograph only

Greek

· Homer Iliad 1.1 Perseus annotated Greek text (you can switch to English too)

· Basic intro to alphabet etc. of ancient Greek at atticgreek.org

· Basic Greek alphabet info

Greek read aloud

Poetry Recitation Page at Harvard You can dowlnoad recordings of Greg Nagy and Carolyn Higbie reading passages from the Iliad (and other folks doing other Greek and Latin poetry) http://www.indefense.com/products/as/as.html
Greg Nagy reading the start of Iliad One
Homer’s Iliad, Book 1, lines 1-52 read in the restored pronunciation of classical Greek by Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York
Stanley Lombardo reads Homer’s The Iliad, Book I
Homeric singing (with audio files)

Background and notes

· Homer in Perseus Encyclopedia

· Background on The Iliad of Homer including a map and list of main characters

· Porter: The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, U. of S.

· Porter: Homeric Gods, Univ. of Saskatchewan

· Porter: Homeric Society, Univ. of Saskatchewan

· Porter: Iliad as Oral Formulaic Poetry, Univ. of Saskatchewan

· The Epic Cycle (by C. David Claudon) follow his links for study guide to Iliad, including names of characters as introduced

· Reed College map of Homeric (Iliadic) Geography another map here (click to enlarge)

· Classical Epic Links and Resources for a course at Temple U.

· Study guide for Homer’s Iliad (Temple U.) Good Study Questions for each Book. Recommended for CLAS 006m002

· ILIAD, BOOKS 1-3 STUDY QUESTIONS (Virginia Tech) Good Study Questions. Recommended for CLAS 006m002

· ILIAD, BOOKS 4 and 6 STUDY QUESTIONS

· ILIAD, BOOKS 9, 11, AND 16 STUDY QUESTIONS

· ILIAD, BOOKS 18 AND 19 STUDY QUESTIONS

· ILIAD, BOOKS 20-22, AND 24 STUDY QUESTIONS

· Reed College Humanities 110 Archives

· TROY DURING THE BRONZE AGE

· Iliadmthological background, outline of the Iliad

· Troy and the Trojan War

· HOMER AND THE END OF THE MYCENAEAN AGE

· Classical Myth: Info: Time Line

· Course Notes Porter including Homer

· Some diagrams of pictures of the shield of Achilles or similar shields: diagram ; drawing from 1749 (info at #444 here), lots of info here about a carved model here (see also here for color) or a drawing like this . Painting from about 1710. There is virus-protection software called Achilles’Shield. Also somethign to do with Lara Croft, Tomb Raider?

· “The Shield of Achilles” by W.H. Auden. Comments on Auden here.

· Pic of relief of Hephaestus and Cyclopes forging shield of Achilles

· Directory of Homer Links from “Altaseek”

· The Internet Classics Archive | The Iliad by Homer Translated by Samuel Butler

· Homer’s Iliad Background info from the “Classics Techology center”

· The Virtual Iliad promises “an interactive … in-depth summary of Homer’s Iliad”

· Study Guide for Reading Homer’s Iliad By Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple U., designed to accompany Fagles translation

· The Iliad, by Homer Some Homer links, plus an Amazon.com ad

· Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey High school site

· Iliad, Mythological Background, Univ. of Saskatchewan Pretty good

· Iliad Links Some links from ancientsites.com

· Aristotle’s Poetics: Notes on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey Malcolm Heath on what Aristotle says about Homer

· Aquila Theatre Company has done the “Wrath of Achilles”

· A pic Also here

· An Iliad 24 papyrus at Princeton

· Keyword search for Homer in Duke Papyrus Archive Very nice! With pics you can enlarge of Homeric papyri

· Keyword Search for Homer in Michigan papyri

· Outline of Homer’s Iliad by David Silverman, Reed College

· Outline of Homer’s ILIAD Brief (1-2 page) book-by-book outline

· Introduction to Latin Epic : The Iliad An Oxford page with info and summaries

· HarvardIliadCourse taught by G. Nagy, with links including full text of some of his books, and other stuff

· CCIV 325EpicLinks Links for my CCIV course on Roman epic

· Thomas Martin Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History toc

· Aquila Theatre Co. Presents Homer’s Iliad: Book One poster for a performance

Odyssey

· Homer’s Odyssey resources Good site, with brief outlines of each book, and links to pics, maps, text in Greek and several translations online, and other neat links (e.g. to Joyce, kafka). Recommended on CLAS 006m002 syllabus

· Study Guide for Homer’s Odyssey (Temple U.) Good Study Questions for each Book (but based on Fagles translation). Recommended on CLAS 006m002 syllabus

· Tennyson’s Ulysses also here and here and here and here (with a recorded reading?) and a few critical notes here

· Odyssey Seton Hall: basic info and extensive links

· Odyssey main characters and plot summary. Recommended on CLAS 006m002 syllabus

· Homer and the movies (including “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”, which is “loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey'”)

· New play from American Repertory Theater is “Highway Ulysses”: see NYTimes story and also (for a while) here

· Pics of Odysseus and the Cyclops:
Odysseus escaping under the ram on a vase; picof blinding at Princeton site which also has another pic
blinding pic; 17th-century picof blinding of Cyclops; 2nd-grade class pics; several pics of blindingand of the escape