Syllabus. Links. Bibliography
Course Description:
We will read extensive selections of Homer's Iliad in Greek,
using the new version of Benner's edition, and the whole poem in
English, in Lattimore's translation. Our goals will be to gain a
command of Homeric Greek while reading closely, and to explore and
appreciate the complex issues raised by the poem. Brief secondary
readings, quizzes, midterm & final exams, and a paper.
Books:
Benner, Allen Rogers, Selections from Homer's Iliad,
revised edition, forward by Mark W. Edwards, Red River Books/
Oklahoma
Homer, The Iliad of Homer, Trans. Richmond Lattimore, Chicago
Syllabus
(in progress) now on a separate page.