Vandiver, Elizabeth

Summary: Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Achilles rage? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? Why do we love our own so strongly? Where...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 VAN

Vandiver, Elizabeth

Summary: Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Odysseus long so powerfully to go home? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? What holds...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 VAN