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The Odyssey of Homer
The Great Courses
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2017 · score 0.7
A Great Courses lecture series on Homer's Odyssey, covering the poem's story, structure, and its place in Greek culture and society.
The commenter calls it a fantastic lecture series that they personally found enlightening, especially on the ways Greek society differed from modern society.
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I think this is spot on.
I probably won't read Wilson's translation -- I recently read Fagles', and am not keen to re-read for sake of a new translation, although might be interested in a comparison of translation differences. But you are correct that Greek society was very, very different from "modern" society in many ways.
I was debating going into the ways it is different, but it seems that the political climate is too toxic, so I will instead link to a fantastic lecture series on the Odyssey that I personally found enlightening: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/odyssey-of-homer.htm...