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What are some good complimentary essays or criticism about the Iliad or the Odyssey that can give me some deeper insights into the texts.

>> No.17772466
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>>17772452
i'm building a seminar on that topic now. here's some stuff i'd recommend/have scanned in. it's covered in my notes but i also have links to new material:
pykewater.com/pykewater-seminars/2021/2/11/homer-iliad-i

gots lots of other suggestions/texts but that's a good selection to start

>> No.17772475
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>>17772466
Are you some sort of nerd?

>> No.17772486

>>17772466
Thanks bro

>> No.17772589

>>17772466
Unfathomably based post as always Rapture.

>> No.17772612

>>17772452
Nature and Culture in the Iliad

>> No.17772614

Dodds' The Greeks and the Irrational

>> No.17772629

>>17772466
what the actual fuck

>> No.17772648

>>17772466
based and homerpilled

>> No.17772667

>>17772466
>starts with Auerbach who completely misunderstood Homer (and most books in Mimesis really)
What a pity, I thought you'd finally posted something worthwhile. Thanks for the effort though I guess.

>> No.17772680

>>17772612
I picked this and the world of Odysseus to start with.

>> No.17772841

>>17772680
Excellent choices, both of them are classic books of criticism. I'd also recommend Simone Weil's The Iliad ot the Poem of Force for a lyrical interpretation of the poem.

>> No.17773266

>>17772841
I saw that one but it’s written by a women described as a “social activist” and the work as an “iconoclastic deconstruction”. That set my modernist bullshit alarm off, I want to understand how the Greeks understood Homer not a political work about pacifism. If I have misjudged it though please tell me I wouldn’t want to miss out on something actually informative.