On ThoughtCast: Honor and Fair Play in Homer's Iliad

In this fifth installment of Faculty Insight, produced in partnership with Harvard University Extension School, ThoughtCast speaks with the esteemed Harvard classicist Gregory Nagy about one of the earliest and greatest legends of all time: Homer's epic story of the siege of Troy, called The Iliad. It's a story of god-like heroes and blood-soaked battles; honor, pride, shame and defeat.

And Nagy is the perfect guide to this classic tale. He's the director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, as well as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard. We spoke in his office at Widener Library.
To hear a longer audio version of this interview, go to www.thoughtcast.org -- and thanks!

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[JEF2293]

Llwyd Hamasaki made me come here. And I'm Keoni Fabianus today.