Homer Biography
HOMER (Ὃμηρος), the great epic poet of Greece. Many of the works once attributed to him are lost; those which remain are the two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, thirty-three Hymns, a mock epic (the Battle of the...
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Guide to the Classics: Homer’s Odyssey
Odysseus and his crew escape the cyclops, as painted by Arnold Böcklin in 1896. Wikimedia. Guide to the Classics: Homer’s Odyssey Chris Mackie, La Trobe University The Odyssey of Homer is a Greek epic...
Why Read The Odyssey?
A Letter to Students Why We Read The Odyssey Tuesday, March 9, 2010 By Deborah Stokol I’ve been full-time substitute teaching English at Harvard-Westlake, my Alma mater, for six weeks now, lecturing on The...
Hidden Histories by Jonathan Gottschall
Hidden Histories ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’ are giving up new secrets about the ancient world By Jonathan Gottschall September 28, 2008 [This article has been abridged for use on the Excellence in Literature...
Level 5 Resource Updates
World Literature Updates Due to the ever-changing nature of the Internet, online resources often move unexpectedly to new addresses. Here are the updates for Level 5: World Literature that have happened since the most...
Texts for World Literature
English V: World Literature What does World Literature cover? World Literature is a college-prep literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary quality, and for...
