Exploring the classical world - Audio
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Exploring the classical world introduces texts by Homer, Horace, Juvenal and others, placing them in their social and political context and assessing their value as historical sources. Readings in the original Latin or Greek and in translation illustrate the metric structures used and the challenges of effectively recreating these works in modern English. The material is drawn from The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world
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United States
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Education Podcasts
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Exploring the classical world introduces texts by Homer, Horace, Juvenal and others, placing them in their social and political context and assessing their value as historical sources. Readings in the original Latin or Greek and in translation illustrate the metric structures used and the challenges of effectively recreating these works in modern English. The material is drawn from The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world
Language:
English
Episodes
Exploring the classical world
7/26/2009
A brief introduction to this album.
Duration:00:00:41
Interpreting Homer
7/26/2009
Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Duration:00:14:28
Homer's people
7/26/2009
Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv.
Duration:00:10:31
Homer's world
7/26/2009
The power of the Gods and the nature of Homeric heroes, including a reading from the original Greek and dramatisations from Odyssey book v.
Duration:00:12:56
Homer - lost in translation?
7/26/2009
Comparing and evaluating translations of Homer, focusing on Lattimore, and the difficulties and decisions involved.
Duration:00:14:39
Homer - translation through recreation
7/26/2009
Different approaches to recreating the original Homeric experience in prose, poetry and on stage.
Duration:00:14:36
Catullus - poetic voices
7/26/2009
The love poetry of Catullus and his place in contemporary Roman society, with readings in Latin and translation.
Duration:00:20:02
Catullus - political worlds
7/26/2009
The role of Catullus and his poetry in political and personal rivalries in the late Roman Republic.
Duration:00:20:36
The Alcaic stanzas of Horace
7/26/2009
The sounds and rhythms of Latin poetry, focusing on the Alcaic form with readings from Horace's ode 3.6.
Duration:00:10:54
Exploring Roman elegiac poetry
7/26/2009
The sounds and rhythms of Roman Elegiac poetry, with readings in Latin and translation.
Duration:00:17:20
Satire in the city of Rome
7/26/2009
Using Roman satirical writing to discover social history.
Duration:00:12:09
The satirical verse of Juvenal
7/26/2009
The motivations of Juvenal in his satirical works, with readings in Latin and in translation of Satire 5.
Duration:00:24:31