The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer: the timeless epics of Homer--memorably explored in 24 recorded lectures.(Advertisement)

National Review | May 17, 2004 | Copyright

When John Keats first read Chapman 's translation of the epics of "deep-brow 'd Homer," he was so overwhelmed, so overcome with the joy of discovery, that he compared his experience to finding "a new planet. "When you join award-winning classics professor Elizabeth Vandiver of the University of Maryland for these lectures on the Iliad and the Odyssey,you will come away understanding what enthralled Keats and has gripped so many readers of Homer.

Professor Vandiver makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the ...

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