The Hittite-Homer Connection? w/ Mary Bachvarova For thousands of years, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were the oldest epic stories that Europeans know of. But is it possible that Homer was, in turn, influenced by the stories of other civilizations to the east of Greece?
How to Succeed in the Iron Age w/ Alicia Stallings Hesiod's unusual epic called Works and Days is probably most famous for containing the stories of Prometheus and Pandora. But these tales are part of a greater mission of explaining how one can live justly and succeed in a harsh world.
Dying for Immortality in Homer's Iliad w/ Andrew Ford What makes the Iliad so...epic? And what kind of vision of the world does Homer provide to his audiences?
