Homer · November
The Cost of Glory: The Odyssey
Welcome. The live class, the reading, and every recording are here.
Join live
Wednesdays · November 4, 11, 18, and December 2
The Cost of Glory: The Odyssey
12 to 1:30 p.m. Pacific · 2 to 3:30 p.m. Central · 3 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern
No class November 25.
Fifty minutes of lecture, which is recorded, a ten-minute break, then thirty minutes of conversation, which is not. You can ask live, or send a question ahead and I will answer it in the recorded lecture.
Recordings
Every lecture, after class.
Reading
Read ahead, or read along.
Read the translation you love. A free public-domain edition and recording are here too.
The Odyssey
Four meetings, six books eachPrimary edition: Emily Wilson’s translation (Norton), also an audiobook read by Claire Danes. For a free public-domain alternative, Samuel Butler’s prose translation is on Project Gutenberg, with a free LibriVox recording of the same translation. Other translations are welcome.
Other translations and recordings
The Odyssey. W. H. D. Rouse’s translation, read by Anthony Heald, is on Audible and elsewhere.
Borrow any of these from your public library with Libby, or buy from an independent bookstore through Bookshop.org.