I am about to finish reading the Odyssey, and I have already finished the Iliad. What are some lectures available that I should watch to gain a deeper knowledge and appreciation for Homer and his works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdOlGUlqy2c
>>25168548Thanks, anon
>>25168541Wait, he wrote something else?
>>25168549No problem
>>25168559Some believe the titular ‘Homeric Hymns’ might have been written by him
>>25168541https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us22dyXiRQQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgvdaOh1Ucwill you be reading the aenied next?
>>25168559>>25168595it's possible he wrote a mock epic called "the battle of frogs and mice"
>>25168857I was thinking of that. But then I started wondering if I should read Hesiod before Virgil as he is Homer’s closest contemporary
>>25168975have you read the argonautica?
>>25168983Nope, that is another good one to read. If you were me, would you go after the Jason and the Argonauts? And any recommendation for a translation?
>>25168857Btw, thank you for the links
>>25168859the batrachomyomachia is kino & should be required elementary school reading.
>>25168975Hesiod's poems are about 1000 lines each and there's only two of them. So yeah, you may as well read them. The Homeric Hymns are not by Homer but they're also worth a read, the first five have classic stories about the gods. The rest are short praises and not that interesting.If you're mainly interested in epics, the Argonautica is divisive but I really like it. Purely for the story, the Posthomerica is worth reading, it's a Roman-era imitation of Homer filling in the story between the Iliad and Odyssey. It's nowhere near as good as them but has some effective parts, I particularly like the death of Paris.
>>25168541This interview with Robin Lane Fox is pretty good. He has a book on analysing the Iliad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQo9vNDKjM
>>25168995edward green's is the only verse translation i'm aware of, and i'm a stickler for poems being in verse.
>>25169696Thanks, I will check them out
https://sacred-texts.com/cla/homer/hymns.htm
>>25168995oh, and if it were me i'd go argonautica, aenied, (translated by chapan), pharsallia (translated by may). i read pharsallia first and found the aenied to be a bit weak by comparison.
>>25169912There is a version availabe in Gutenberg translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (prose), and one in StandardEbooks by Arthur S. Way (verse)
>>25170671>i read pharsallia first and found the aenied to be a bit weak by comparisonThat’s something. Cause most people say that Lucan is the closest any Roman poet ever came to Virgil.And Chapman for Aeneid? I have Allan Mendelbaum being touted as the best one
