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Jan

Homer’s Iliad Retold

On Point, Monday, January 2, 2012 at 0am

Stephen Mitchell discusses The Iliad.

In the great tale of ancient Greece, young Paris swiped the beautiful Helen and took her off to Troy. And on came war and heroes. Gods and chariots. Achilles. Hector. Agamemnon. The Trojan horse. It’s an epic that goes to the essential nature of life – its beauty and its tragedy. The greatest teller of the heart of the tale is Homer in The Iliad. A new translation takes us back to the speed and clarity and grace of Homer’s telling, and makes it new. (Shortride)… (more)

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Feb

Dr William Kirk, Plants for bees

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales, Wednesday, February 27 at 1:15pm

Dr William Kirk launches a book about the fascinating world of beekeeping and plants. (Cynfelyn)

Jan

Conferència Ulisses a casa: retrobaments, morts i pau final

CaixaForum Palma, Tuesday, January 29 at 7:30pm

Conferència Ulisses a casa: retrobaments, morts i pau final. L’‘Odissea’. Dins el cicle Retorn a Ítaca: tres dies amb Homer i l’‘Odissea’. A càrrec de Joan Francesc Mira, escriptor, antropòleg i sociòleg. Activitat de pagament. (gamoia)

Jan

Conferència Temptacions i perills, un llarguíssim viatge

CaixaForum Palma, Tuesday, January 22 at 7:30pm

Conferència Temptacions i perills, un llarguíssim viatge
L’‘Odissea’. Dins el cicle "Retorn a Ítaca: tres dies amb Homer i l’‘Odissea’. A càrrec de Joan Francesc Mira, escriptor, antropòleg i sociòleg. Activitat de pagament. (gamoia)

Jan

Conferència La casa d'Ulisses: l'esposa sola, el pare absent

CaixaForum Palma, Tuesday, January 15 at 7:30pm

Conferència La casa d’Ulisses: l’esposa sola, el pare absent. L’‘Odissea’. Dins el cicle "Retorn a Ítaca: tres dies amb Homer i l’‘Odissea’. A càrrec de Joan Francesc Mira, escriptor, antropòleg i sociòleg. Activitat de pagament. (gamoia)

Dec

Performance: Word Outleaps the World

Art Institute of Chicago, Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 6pm

To celebrate the new Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, dancers and readers interpret literary passages from classical luminaries such as Plotinus, Homer, Sophocles, and Virgil.

Presented with the Poetry Foundation and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (lilithcat)

Nov

Anthony D’Aries and Meg Kearney, The Language of Men and The Girl in the Mirror

Porter Square Books, Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 7pm

Anthony D’Aries and Meg Kearney, The Language of Men and The Girl in the Mirror

Hold the phone, kick down the door, and yell from the rooftops of all those American blue-collar towns that give birth to so many of our artists: a new one is among us, and his name is Anthony D’Aries. This man writes like Charlie Parker played the alto sax, with grit and verve and a willing free-fall into hard-won, illuminated truths. The Language of Men is a profoundly important book by a major new talent!”
Andre Dubus III, author of Townie: A Memoir

“Meg Kearney is a deft magician...It’s amazing what she does with the presences and absences--people who aren’t quite there anymore remain potently everywhere--as Lizzie’s life unfolds. This book is a generous gift.”
Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Transfer

Anthony D’Aries received the 2010 PEN/New England Discovery Award in Nonfiction. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program and currently teaches literacy and creative writing in correctional facilities in Massachusetts.

Meg Kearney is the author of The Secret of Me--the acclaimed novel that introduced Lizzie McLane--and two collections of poetry for adults, most recently, the award-winning Home By Now. She is Director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA. (ablachly)… (more)

May

Cicle El món de les muses: llegir la poesia clàssica

CaixaForum, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 7:15pm

Homer, The Odyssey.

Conferència: La poesia com a poiesis: la bellesa de les comparacions d’Homer. A càrrec de Francesc Casadesús, professor de filosofia grega de la Universitat de les Illes Balears. Activitat de pagament. (gamoia)

Feb

Club de lectura

Biblioteca Julià Cutiller. Llagostera, Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 9pm

Homer, The Odyssey.

Comentar una selecció de textos d'Homer feta per la coordinadora del club Cristina Garcia. (gamoia)

Oct

La Ilíada i l'Odissea, els poemes fundacionals d'Europa

Ateneu Barcelonès, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 7:30pm

Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Arran de la publicació, a la Fundació Bernat Metge, del tercer volum de la Ilíada, en traducció de Montserrat Ros, i del primer volum de la reedició bilingüe de l’Odisseade Carles Riba, l´hel·lenista Francesc J. Cuartero, que ha col·laborat en totes dues edicions; el lingüista Joan Solà; el president del CoNCA Francesc Guardans, i el ponent de la Secció de Filosofia Ramon Alcoberro, dialogaran sobre la significació literària i històrica d’aquests poemes, i la rellevància de les traduccions catalanes acabades de publicar. (gamoia)… (more)

Jun

Grec 2010: L'Odissea

Grec2012 Festival de Barcelona, Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 10pm

Homer, The Odyssey.

Direcció Antonio Calvo (gamoia)

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c. 9th Century BCE (disputed)

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The ancient Greeks believed not only that one man named Homer composed the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", but also ascribe a host of other works to him, including much of the epic cycle now lost to us. The consensus of most conventional scholarship suggests that if all or parts of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were in fact the work of the same author, he probably composed them sometime around the 8th or 9th centuries BCE, and that they were transmitted by succeeded generations, first orally and then in written form. There are, however, many theories in Homeric scholarship, and few of the ideas can be conclusively proven or disproven with the evidence that has come down to us.

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