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The Iliad Summer Course for Adults
Welcome!
Welcome!
Gathering Resources
Why Read The Iliad (6 min. video) (6:40)
Pep Talk: Let's Do This! (12:44)
Getting Started
Reading Schedule
Book I
Active Reading and Note-taking (20:33)
First 100 lines or so of Book I (video)
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Video: Power, Authority, Kingship, Obedience (33:06)
Quiz: Part I
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Video: Contrasting Greek Gods with the Holy Trinity (10:04)
Quiz: Part II
Book II
JUNE 3 RECORDING (Class 1)
Video: Homer's Style and Odysseus Rallies the Troops (28:22)
Quiz
Book III
Video: Women of Ancient Greece and Four Words for Love (16:58)
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Quiz
Book IV
Quiz
June 10 Recording
Book V
Quiz
Book VI
Quiz
Book VII
Videos: The Just Defense Theory of the Catholic Church Explained, Parts 1-3 (12:11)
Quiz
Videos: The Just Defense Theory of the Catholic Church Explained, Parts 4-6 (17:04)
June 17 recording
Book VIII
Quiz
Book IX
Quiz
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Books X-XI
Links to things referenced in the Study Guide
Quiz (Book XI)
June 24 recording
Books XII-XIV
Extra Credit! Investigate Homer's "Wine-Blue Sea"
Books XVI-XVII
Video: Reason and Sin (30:06)
Quiz (Books XVI-XVII)
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Books XVIII-IX
Video: The god of Delusion (13:42)
Quiz (Books XVIII-IX)
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July 1 recording
Books XXI-XXIV
Simone Weil's "The Iliad: The Poem of Force"
Video: Virtue and Vice (23:39)
Quiz (Book XXI-XXIV)
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July 8 recording
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