third and final extant work is the Vita Merlini (“The Life of Merlin”, hereafterabbreviated VM), completed around 1150 and extant in only four independentmanuscripts.6 Written in dactylic hexameter, this poem recounts how MerlinSilvester goes mad after battle and retires to the woods to live; this enigmaticand difficult work seems to be deeply in touch with Welsh literature, thoughits ultimate sources are unknown.
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The Odyssey of Homer A Close Reading - Week 1
Video: https://vimeo.com/642829312/245fb2b6a5
The Odyssey of Homer: a Close Reading
- Will Quinn
- Dr. Elizabeth Patton
Looking at Chapters 1-4
- Council of Gods on Mount Olympus
- Journey of Telemachus (Telemachy)
Translation
Using Richmond Lattimore's translation of The Odyssey in part because he keeps the sens of the formulaic epithets.
Dactylic hexameter
- Longfellow used it in Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
"This is the forest primeval."
Epithets
- "The man of many ways" (Odysseus)
- much enduring Odysseus
- rosy fingered dawn
These sorts of epithets are designed to fit the epic into the dactylic hexameter.
Background of story
Proem
in Greek suffering can mean "learning"
Q: When does the council on the gods take place?
"Council of the Gods" in Galleria Borghese (Rome) ceiling_ceiling.jpg)
Penelope with the Suitors by Pinturicchio
Circumspect Penelope
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