Posted on 12/29/2024 5:06:08 PM PST by Robwin
Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey have been hit with trigger warnings by a university for “distressing” content.
The University of Exeter has come under fire after telling undergraduates they may “encounter views and content that they may find uncomfortable” in their Greek mythology studies.
In what has been branded as a “parody” and “bonkers”, students enroled on the Women in Homer module are told material could be “challenging”.
With references to sexual violence, rape and infant mortality, undergraduates are also advised they should “feel free to deal with it in ways that help (eg to leave the classroom, contact Wellbeing, and of course talk to the lecturer)” if content is “causing distress”.
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I think I was in middle school (junior high) when I read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Which version should I read? I am old. Have never read it.
It’s ironic because all the wengy-libs have no idea how many times hollywood has lifted ideas from the Blind Bard for their favorite movies. We are devolving, not evolving.
I read them to my kids when they were 7-8.
“Sing, oh Goddess...”
I did edit the very bloody bits.
It worked. One kid surprised me by citing Runciman in HS. I had no idea that he was reading THAT.
Another graduated summa cum laude out of UC.
None had to actually study in school, that wasn’t math.
The most cited go-to is Lattimore. Its fine, for me.
I used Fagle with the kids as it was new at the time and was just sitting there in the bookstore. Smooth reading.
Look around and you should be able to compare snatches of text.
I agree. Lattimore was my “crib” in college. Fagle is I think more readable, perhaps not quite as accurate.
Lattimore’s more academic, Fagle is a more exciting read. At least so my daughter says. I’m fond of Lattimore.
Me too but I was surprised by the level of violence in the Iliad when I first read it. Granted it was about a war but I guess I had been overly influenced by classic Hollywood war movies of which many were pretty tame in comparison.
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Ay, por favor-esta mierda otra vez? Grow up-it is classical literature, not a f’in nursery rhyme...
My mom bought “Bulfinche’s Mythology”-all 3 books-for me to learn the Classics from when I was 11 years old, and that was not really unusual for a parent who happened to be a teacher of English and literature-I was interested enough to check other works of Homer and other classical authors at the public library in town. I still like the classics and i was never triggered or upset otherwise by the violence in those tales-life was brutal at that time in history, and that is reflected in the literature-duh. Hubby and I allowed our cub to start reading those stories at 12, but by then, people thought we were just being weird, or raising a future intellectual snob...
There was a young woman of Exeter, so pretty men craned their necks at ‘er........
And you know who Telemachus guides faithfully.
Re Reading the poem now.
I recall Mrs. Heilman reading this to used in late grade school every morning for a half-hour. I still recall much of it.
Henricus Barbatus would approve
Athena guides Telemachus, but who does Telemachus guide? He welcomes his father...
I don’t like the voice that Heald gives him. Sure Telemachus is outnumbered, untrained, powerless to evict the suitors, and his mother tries too much to keep him safe at home, but he is no timorous milksop, and that is Heald’s worst choice in the narration.
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