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**Assignment for Wednesday, October 21**
**Please Download, Print, and Read**
Also, for those interested, you may purchase an excellent audiobook of Hesiod
Dear Class,
Below are the links to both an audio reading of the entire Oresteia, and an on-line text.
Oresteia, The by AESCHYLUS – LibriVox
And, if you’re interested, an excellent movie version of the Iphigeneia story, in Greek with English subtitles.
Dear Class,
Here is the link to the film we were watching:
Elektra 1962 – YouTube
The point we made it up to in class is around the 1 hour 11 minute mark
Χαῖρετε!
Dear Class,
Here is a wonderful episode from a documentary about the Trojan War made in the 1980s. This particular episode covers a lot of what we talked about in our most recent class regarding Homer and oral poetry.
In search of the Trojan war – The Singer of Tales – YouTube
Enjoy
Dear Class,
Here is the poem I was referring to tonight about the lotos eaters
The Lotos-eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Some commentary
The Lotos-Eaters
And, why not, the Percy Jackson scene