Fabulous. Delivered with great passion, exactly as I think it should be for anyone who believes “Homeric/Epic poetry” was the performance poetry of its day, performed by travelling “bards” & subsequently written up by Homer. Any plans to deliver the other books of the Iliad in similar fashion? The constant references in the poem to Achilles going back to slaughter “shed-loads” more Trojans in between getting the Gods to help kept it grounded. I do wonder what the audiences made of this. Were they really thinking this is what a “hero” should do? Next, “eco literary criticism” was new to me. I’ve seen Marxist. Feminist & Racial forms of literary criticism/analysis before & got them, at least a bit/ I’ve seen interpretations of the “Late Bronze Age Decline in the Middle East” which reference “natural” climate change as a possible cause for the decline. However, I’ve not come across any that suggest it could be seen (then or now) as “man made” , e.g. de-forestation for fashioning bronze armour or building a thousand? ships. It sounds plausible to me that some at the time might have questioned whether this was a sensible way to proceed. Who knows? Keep up the good work.
Fabulous. Delivered with great passion, exactly as I think it should be for anyone who believes “Homeric/Epic poetry” was the performance poetry of its day, performed by travelling “bards” & subsequently written up by Homer. Any plans to deliver the other books of the Iliad in similar fashion?
The constant references in the poem to Achilles going back to slaughter “shed-loads” more Trojans in between getting the Gods to help kept it grounded. I do wonder what the audiences made of this. Were they really thinking this is what a “hero” should do?
Next, “eco literary criticism” was new to me. I’ve seen Marxist. Feminist & Racial forms of literary criticism/analysis before & got them, at least a bit/ I’ve seen interpretations of the “Late Bronze Age Decline in the Middle East” which reference “natural” climate change as a possible cause for the decline. However, I’ve not come across any that suggest it could be seen (then or now) as “man made” , e.g. de-forestation for fashioning bronze armour or building a thousand? ships. It sounds plausible to me that some at the time might have questioned whether this was a sensible way to proceed. Who knows?
Keep up the good work.
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