Wednesday,
November 16, 2011
A conversation with Stanford professor of Classics Richard Martin on
Homer and his two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Outro Music: Glass Wave, "Nausicaa"
| Richard
Martin is Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of
Classics at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Harvard
University in 1981 and has also taught at Harvard, Princeton, and
Berkeley. Among his publications are the books "Healing, Sacrifice, and
Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry"
(1983), "The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad"
(1993), an anthology he edited entitled "Myths of the Ancient Greeks"
(2003), and an edition of "The Odyssey" (2004) for which he wrote the
introduction and supplied the critical apparatus. He has also published
many essays on topics such as Thucydides, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Homer,
Horace, Greek religion, musical performance and performance culture in
ancient Greece, and is currently working on book-length projects on
Homeric religion, ancient competitive performance, and Greek lyric and
wisdom traditions. Most recently he has edited a new edition of
Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's Iliad, published by the
University of Chicago Press in 2011. |