The Odyssey is one of the most influential works of literature ever created, and yet its origins remain ambiguous and widely debated. It started as an oral tradition, passed along by aoidos, or singer-poets, and later transitioned to written form; the timeframe of this transition isn’t agreed upon […]
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens tells the story of Homer’s Odyssey… in memes! You can read Part 1 here.
Mary Beard writes about gender, speech, and the depiction of the sound of women’s voices from Homer’s time until now. “I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; […]
Pornokitsch finishes determining essential epic fantasy, with statistics, graphs and lists of their selections. Nice to see Homer in there.
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The Cultural Gutter 