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Exploring the classical world - Audio
The Open University
24 episodes
9 months ago
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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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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Exploring the classical world - Audio
Exploring the classical world
A brief introduction to this album.
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16 years ago
42 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Exploring the classical world
A brief introduction to this album.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Interpreting Homer
Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey.
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16 years ago
14 minutes 28 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Interpreting Homer
Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Homer's people
Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv.
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16 years ago
10 minutes 33 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Homer's people
Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Homer's world
The power of the Gods and the nature of Homeric heroes, including a reading from the original Greek and dramatisations from Odyssey book v.
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16 years ago
12 minutes 56 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Homer's world
The power of the Gods and the nature of Homeric heroes, including a reading from the original Greek and dramatisations from Odyssey book v.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Homer - lost in translation?
Comparing and evaluating translations of Homer, focusing on Lattimore, and the difficulties and decisions involved.
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16 years ago
14 minutes 42 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Homer - lost in translation?
Comparing and evaluating translations of Homer, focusing on Lattimore, and the difficulties and decisions involved.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Homer - translation through recreation
Different approaches to recreating the original Homeric experience in prose, poetry and on stage.
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16 years ago
14 minutes 36 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Homer - translation through recreation
Different approaches to recreating the original Homeric experience in prose, poetry and on stage.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Catullus - poetic voices
The love poetry of Catullus and his place in contemporary Roman society, with readings in Latin and translation.
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16 years ago
20 minutes 10 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Catullus - poetic voices
The love poetry of Catullus and his place in contemporary Roman society, with readings in Latin and translation.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Catullus - political worlds
The role of Catullus and his poetry in political and personal rivalries in the late Roman Republic.
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16 years ago
20 minutes 42 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Catullus - political worlds
The role of Catullus and his poetry in political and personal rivalries in the late Roman Republic.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
The Alcaic stanzas of Horace
The sounds and rhythms of Latin poetry, focusing on the Alcaic form with readings from Horace's ode 3.6.
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16 years ago
10 minutes 57 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- The Alcaic stanzas of Horace
The sounds and rhythms of Latin poetry, focusing on the Alcaic form with readings from Horace's ode 3.6.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Exploring Roman elegiac poetry
The sounds and rhythms of Roman Elegiac poetry, with readings in Latin and translation.
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16 years ago
17 minutes 20 seconds

Exploring the classical world - Audio
Transcript -- Exploring Roman elegiac poetry
The sounds and rhythms of Roman Elegiac poetry, with readings in Latin and translation.
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16 years ago

Exploring the classical world - Audio
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