Résultats pour "Homer" dans Europe

In Homer, Barbara Graziosi considers Homer's famous works and their impact on readers throughout the centuries. She shows how The Iliad and The Odyssey benefit from a tradition of reading that spans well over two millennia, stemming from ancient scholars at the library of Alexandria, in the third and second centuries BCE, who wrote some of the first commentaries on the Homeric epics. Summaries of these scholars' notes made their way into the margins of Byzantine manuscripts; from Byzantium the annotated manuscripts traveled to Italy.

Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social frictions, is today reinforcing them, Sacks argues for a new approach to national identity, making the case for "integrated diversity" within a framework of shared political values. Britain, he argues, will have to construct a national narrative as a basis for identity, reinvigorate the concept of the common good, and identify shared interests among currently conflicting groups.

Victory and defeat, love and loss are the prevalent realities of Letters from the Greatest Generation, a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each minute, and their voices ring loud and clear. "It's all part of the game. But it's bloody and rough," wrote one soldier to his wife. "Wearing two stripes now and proud as an old cat with five kittens," marked another.

Here are the most exciting and essential parts of two historic, epic poems: the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". The ancient words of Homer find a new home in today's world - spoken aloud, just as Homer intended. Translated by Stanley Lombardo.

War is often remembered through the lens of soldiers, battles, and political leaders, but one of its most enduring human stories belongs to those too young to fight—the children. At the outbreak of the Second World War, governments across Europe launched evacuation programmes designed to protect their youngest citizens from the horrors of modern warfare. Operation Pied Piper in Britain uprooted nearly 1.5 million people in just a few days, most of them children carrying gas masks and small suitcases, their names tied to their coats like parcels.

"I had not lived in the former pit village of Lynemouth since 1961 but the winding road north from Newcastle will always be the same nostalgic highway, each twist charged with vivid memories and powerful emotions...." So begins a story full of wonderful humour, emotional candour, and hardy tales of tough times - a quietly epic family saga set amid the pit villages of the Northeast. It stretches from the 1920s, before Sid's parents had even met, to the final closing of the mine and his mother's death, in 1999.

The roots of today's environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity's past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer's Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the dangers posed by the destruction of the natural landscape. Underlying Homer's account of brutal military operations, alliances, and cataclysmic struggle is a palpable understanding that the direction in which humanity was headed could create a world that was uninhabitable.

From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this...

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On a cold May morning in 1940, Adrian Vincent arrived in France with his battalion. His war didn’t last long. Within five days the Siege of Calais was over, and nearly all his comrades were killed, wounded or, like him, taken prisoner. After a brutal journey across the breadth of Germany, Vincent and his fellow survivors began their life in Stalag VIIIB, set to work in terrible conditions down a Polish mine. For the next five years, they waged a war not against enemy soldiers but instead versus monotony, disease, cruelty, starvation, and hopelessness.

Over the centuries, the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what’s known and not known about the Vikings’ accomplishments has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they fierce and fearsome warriors? Were they the first Europeans to visit North America? It seems some of the legends are true, and some are just that, legend.

"By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck's marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends." —Christopher Markus, coscreenwriter of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame What connects Dionysus, the ancient Greek...

The Odyssey is an epic poem, written by the ancient Greek philosopher Homer, and considered to be the second oldest piece of western literature still in existence. Scholars believe it was written at the end of the eighth century BC. Still heavily used in schools because of its unique literary makeup and historical value, the poems follow Greek hero Odysseus, as he journeys home after the 10-year long Trojan War. His journey home takes another 10 years, and Odysseus encounters many obstacles.

Although Russia has long been considered part of Europe, it has always had a culture so distinct and a history so different that it is still foreign to Western Europe in many ways. Naturally, this sense of otherness has lent an aura of intrigue and mystique to Russia as people have struggled to understand it. Over the long course of Russian history, perhaps no aspect of the giant country has generated interest quite like Siberia, the easternmost part of Russia that lies in Asia.

We begin with Book V, Odysseus weeping on Calyspo's Island, and follow his adventures through to his return to Ithaca and Penelope. This version of Homer's Odyssey was created over a 14-year period of performing the great epic. When it came time to record this version for audiobook, I realized there was no text: It lived in memory. So I had to write out a 38-page poem from memory. Then I used that text as a performance script and while reading it found myself constantly editing as my spoken word insisted on changes that sharpened the sound.

Join us on a fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last 400 years in the company of some of its most illustrious chroniclers, including Jane Austen, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Francis Kilvert, Celia Fiennes, Chips Channon, Fanny Burney and many others, told entirely in their own words.

Dit is deel 2 van de serie Een geschiedenis van de westerse wijsbegeerte en gaat over de periode van de 4de eeuw v.C. tot de 3de eeuw n.C. Filosoof Johan Braeckman gaat in dit deel uitgebreid in op de levens, werken en filosofie van Plato en Aristoteles. Daarnaast behandelt hij de Hellenistische filosofieën, zoals het cynisme, het epicurisme, het stoïcisme en het scepticisme. Over de collegeserie Een geschiedenis van de westerwijsbegeerte: Al minstens 5000 jaar worstelt de mensheid met fundamentele vragen over het leven.

Dit is deel 1 van de serie Een geschiedenis van de westerse wijsbegeerte en gaat over de periode van 3000 tot 400 v.C. Filosoof Johan Braeckman bespreekt de ontwikkelingen van de wijsbegeerte vanaf de oudst bekende mythen en verhalen, de presocratici en sofisten tot en met Socrates, die de gifbeker dronk in 399 v.C. Over de collegeserie Een geschiedenis van de westerwijsbegeerte : Al minstens 5000 jaar worstelt de mensheid met fundamentele vragen over het leven. Cruciale vragen over ons bestaan en ons wezen worden sinds het begin van de beschaving door bedachtzame mannen en vrouwen overwogen.

Dit is deel 3 van de collegeserie Een geschiedenis van de westerse wijsbegeerte en gaat over de periode van de 3de eeuw v.C. tot de 6de eeuw n.C. Filosoof Johan Braeckman vangt dit deel aan met de behandeling van de geschiedenis van de wiskunde, meetkunde, natuurkunde en geneeskunde in de Griekse Oudheid. Hij besteedt daarbij uitgebreid aandacht aan de werken van Euclides en Archimedes en hun invloed op latere wetenschappen. Maar hij bespreekt ook de levens en werken van andere filosofen en wetenschappers uit die tijd.

De Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft niet alleen diepe sporen getrokken door onze samenleving, maar ook geleid tot een nog altijd doorgaande stroom aan gepubliceerde getuigenissen en herinneringen. Tal van schrijvers hebben eigen ervaringen en die van anderen verwerkt in romans, verhalen, toneelstukken, poëzie en autobiografisch proza. In deze serie colleges laat Jaap Goedegebuure zien hoe zich in de Nederlandstalige literatuur van de afgelopen vijfenzeventig jaar een ontwikkeling heeft voltrokken.