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Culture & the Arts

Beliefs & Ideas

Teachers

YouTube

Homer inspires many people to post their own productions – the quality is variable!

The following YouTube films are recommended:

The History Teachers

These professionally produced short videos summarize a topic to the tune of a pop song. Brilliant!

The Trojan War ("Tainted Love" by Soft Cell)

Ancient Minoan Civilization ("Creep" by Radiohead)

Yale University course

The Dark Ages

Miscellaneous

Greek Mythology 3500 BC to AD 2014 by Ken Dowden, University of Birmingham

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson

A discussion from the Hay Festival

Where does Homer come from? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty; but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? The author ‘travels in the realms of gold’ with the Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Paul Cartledge.

The Homeric Tradition by Edith Hall

In Our Time

The Muses – with Paul Cartledge, Angie Hobbs and Penelope Murray

The Trojan War – with Edith Hall, Ellen Adams and Susan Sherratt

The Greek Myths – with Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton and Mary Beard

The Epic – with John Carey, Karen Edwards and Oliver Taplin

The Bronze Age Collapse – with John Bennet, Linda Hulin and Simon Stoddart

Rhetoric – with Angie Hobbs, Thomas Healy and Ceri Sullivan

Heroism – with Angie Hobbs, Paul Cartledge and Anthony Grayling