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A Bard Reviews Nolan’s Odyssey
Note: We took some time off after an extreme summer, but will start posts up again with this return to the Odysscene. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I took life advice from Agamemnon. In...
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“Time to Rouse the Dead”: Music, Improvisation, and Homeric Performance
This post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various books, with an emphasis on new projects and...
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Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad
Part 3: Analysis, Neoanalysis, and the Set List This post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various books,...
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Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad
Part 2: Evidence for ‘Episodes’ from Literature and Art This post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various...
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Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad
Part 1: Singers in Homer and the Panathenaic Rule This post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various...
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Psycho Killers: What Stop Making Sense Can teach Us About the Iliad
This post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various books, with an emphasis on new projects and...
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Reading Homer is like Prayer
This post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various books, with an emphasis on new projects and...
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A Restless Night of Grief: Or, How the Scholia are Wrong about Iliad 24
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. After eight posts about Iliad 24, what more can there be to say? The funeral games occupy the majority of Iliad 23, but the book begins with...
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On viewing Nolan’s Odyssey
Disclaimer: I haven’t read any other reviews though I have listened to the one by Mark Kermode, as well as the accompanying interview with Nolan conducted by Simon Mayo. I’m also acutely aware that...
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The Burial of Horse-Taming Hektor: Ending the Iliad
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. The Iliad begins: “Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles” Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω ᾿Αχιλῆος And then it ends: “And so they were completing...
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Taking Helen Seriously: Reading Trauma into The Iliad
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. I have written about trauma and the Iliad in several posts. Last year, I provided an overview of work on psychology and Homer. Part of what I explain...
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“Better off Dead”: Helen’s Lament for Hektor in Iliad 24
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. Once Hektor’s body is brought back to Troy, Priam and his family prepare for the term of burial promised by Achilles. Following the preparation of...
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Starving Then Stoned: Achilles’ Story of Niobe in Iliad 24
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. In the last post on book 24, I wrote about how pity and wonder drive the actions of the epic’s close, furnishing both a resolution to many of the...
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Priam And Achilles, Pity and Fear: A ‘tragic’ end to Homer’s Iliad
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. In an earlier post, I wrote about how Priam’s journey to Achilles invokes themes of crossing to a liminal space between life and death. This space is...
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“Blow Up Your TV”: Thetis, Achilles, and Life and Death in Iliad 24
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. In an earlier post, I wrote about Priam’s journey to Achilles as a passage to a liminal space, but one dominated by death. This katabasis, guided by...
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On Waiting to see Nolan’s Odyssey
Editor’s note: Elton and I will be hosting an Odyssey-anticipation open house from 10-11 EDT (2 PM GMT) Next Monday, July 13th. Email for details Disclaimer: I’ve deliberately avoided all trailers,...
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“As If He Were Going to His Death”: Priam and Katabasis in Iliad 24
This is one of a few posts dedicated to Iliad 24. After the gods have decided to force Achilles to return Hektor’s body, Thetis is dispatched to talk to her son and Iris tells Priam to go with a...
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Disfiguring the Fallow Earth: Introducing Iliad 24
This post is a basic introduction to reading Iliad 24. How does one bring the Iliad to a close? How does one begin to write about this epic’s end? Do we start with the image of Priam kissing the...
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Epic Bullsh*t: Laughing with Homer
This post is one of a few on Iliad 23. A few years ago I posted a bit from Plato’s Ion, discussing the proposition that there is something about laughter that is alien to the expectations of Homeric...
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Equal Prizes! Mixing it up in the Funeral Games
This post is one of a few on Iliad 23. Every time the Olympics come around, I find myself talking about ancient Greek athletics, even though the topic is a bit far outside my expertise. As a...
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