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The Odyssey of Homer
- Title
- The Odyssey of Homer / taught by Elizabeth Vandiver.
- Author
- Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-
- Publication
- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [1999] .
- ©1999
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD1-6 | Audio | Request in advance | PA4167 .V36 2000g CD1-6 | Off-site | |
| booklet | Audio | Request in advance | PA4167 .V36 2000g booklet | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Teaching Company.
- Description
- 6 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Odysseus long so powerfully to go home? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? What holds people together and keeps them going--or drives them apart and crushes them--in extreme situations such as war or shipwreck? Why do we love our own so strongly? Where is the line between justice and revenge, and what does it mean to be mortal?
- Series Statement
- The great courses
- Uniform Title
- Great courses (Compact disc)
- Subject
- Homer
- Homer > Criticism and interpretation
- Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature
- Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
- Odyssey (Homer)
- Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
- Heroes in literature
- Poésie épique grecque > Histoire et critique
- Héros dans la littérature
- Epic poetry, Greek
- Literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Audiobooks.
- Lectures.
- Contents
- Lecture 1. Heroes' homecoming -- Lecture 2. Guests and hosts -- Lecture 3. A goddess and a princess -- Lecture 4. Odysseus among the Phaiakians -- Lecture 5. Odysseus tells his own story -- Lecture 6. From Persephone's land to the Island of Helios -- Lecture 7. The goddess, the swineherd and the beggar -- Lecture 8. Reunion and return -- Lecture 9. Odysseus and Penelope -- Lecture 10. Recognitions and revenge -- Lecture 11. Recognition and resolution -- Lecture 12. The Trojan war and the archaeologists.
- ISBN
- 1565853180
- 9781565853188
- 9791565853187
- OCLC
- on1104894562
- 1104894562
- SCSB-14485005
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries