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Section 5: Texts

Core

  • Tradebook
    • The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin Publishing Group, 1996
  • Unit Reader
    • “A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey,” Emily Wilson, The New Yorker, December 8, 2017
    • “Ancient Greek Wisdom for Today’s Leadership Crisis,” Emily Anhalt, The Conversation, October 15, 2017
    • “Hero,” from the introduction to The Odyssey (pp. 37–41), Bernard Knox, Penguin Publishing Group, 1996
    • “Odysseus the Foreigner,” Joshua R. Hall, Ancient World Magazine, June 22, 2018
    • “The Odyssey,” from the introduction to The Odyssey (pp. 8–11), Bernard Knox, Penguin Publishing Group, 1996
    • “Women and Men,” from the introduction to The Odyssey (pp. 49–58), Bernard Knox, Penguin Publishing Group, 1996
  • Digital Access
    • “What Is Xenia?,” Greek Comix, YouTube
    • “What Makes a Homeric Hero?,” Greek Comix, YouTube
    • “What Role Do the Gods Play in The Iliad and The Odyssey?,” Barry Powell, YouTube, Oxford University Press, June 30, 2014