Trojan War: The Podcast
EPISODE 11 “ACHILLES DISHONORED”
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 1:02:34
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Sinopsis
THE STORY: (46 minutes) Ten years into the siege of Troy a priest of Apollo arrives at the command tent of Agamemnon, Commander in Chief of the Greeks. The priest makes a simple request of Agamemnon. Agamemnon refuses, and Greek soldiers die in the thousands. And then things turn truly ugly… THE COMMENTARY: DID A GUY NAMED HOMER EXIST, & DID HE WRITE THE ILIAD? (16 minutes; begins at 46:00) This particular episode of Trojan War: The Podcast brings our story arc into Homer’s Iliad itself. I use the post-story commentary to discuss “all things Iliad” including: who was/was there a Homer; how was the Iliad composed; and why do we have copies of the Iliad today? I begin by reminding listeners that the first ten episodes of Trojan War: The Podcast are not found in Homer’s Iliad. Rather, they are part of what scholars refer to as the Trojan War Epic Cycle: a jambalaya of stories, bits of stories, accounts of bits of stories, and references to accounts of bits of stories, that have managed to survive,