Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, is back to take on another twelve vital works of Greek and Roman literature with the LRB’s Thomas Jones, loosely themed around truth and lies – from from Aesop’s Fables to Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.
Episodes will appear once a month throughout 2024.
Among the Ancients is part of the Close Readings podcasts collection from the London Review of Books.
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Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, is back to take on another twelve vital works of Greek and Roman literature with the LRB’s Thomas Jones, loosely themed around truth and lies – from from Aesop’s Fables to Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.
Episodes will appear once a month throughout 2024.
Among the Ancients is part of the Close Readings podcasts collection from the London Review of Books.
To listen to all the series in full, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts at the top of this podcast
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Some of the most compelling stories of the Classical world come from Herodotus‘ 'Histories', an account of the Persian Wars and a thousand things besides. Emily and Tom chart a course through Herodotus‘ history-as-epic, discussing how best to understand his approach to history, ethnography and myth. Exploring a work full of surprising, dramatic and frequently funny digressions, this episode illustrates the artfulness and deep structure underpinning the 'Histories', and, despite his obvious Greek bias, Herodotus‘ genuine interest in and respect for cultural difference.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Peter Green: On Liking Herodotus
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n07/peter-green/on-liking-herodotus
Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jones is an editor at the London Review of Books.
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