HOMER: LIFE AND WORKS
Homeric Fragments
READING THE ILIAD IN GREEK
Harvard oral readings of Homer (and other Greek and Latin poets)
[Includes links to Iliad readings by Professors Gregory Nagy and Carolyn Higbie; requires QuickTime 3.0 installed in your computer and DeadTime 4.0 installed in your head.]
INTERPRETING THE ILIAD
The Stanley Lombardo Iliad
[Hour-long "Talk of the Nation" NPR program hosted by Ray Suarez 11/20/97. Includes Greek reading of opening of Iliad. Opens with RealAudio Player. Click here if you have trouble with RealAudio.]
The Six-Minute Iliad
[Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion version of the Iliad, with Jack Nicholson as Achilles, Elvis Presley as the King Agamemnon, Mr. Rogers as Odysseus, and Ross Perot as Hector. Opens with RealAudio Player. Click here if you have trouble with RealAudio or here if you'd like a copy of the transcript.]
HomerChat
[New Internet discussion group]
HOMER AND HISTORY
Background of Homeric Poems (Richard Hooker)
Background to Homer's Iliad
HOMERIC GEOGRAPHY
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean (IAM) Map Room
HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Heinrich Schliemann: Heros and Mythos (Wellington King)
Researchers at Troy
Excavating Troy
Mycenae (from Perseus Site Index)
Images of Mycenae (from Tulane)
Mycenae Tour
Mycenae and Tiryns
Art and Archaeology Net
Linear B
The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean (from Dartmouth)
HOMER AND ART
HOMER AND MYTHOLOGY
Greek Mythology Link
Classical Mythology Project (Princeton)
Classical Myth
THE TEXT AND TRANSMISSION OF HOMER
Homer and the Papyri
The Iliad Sung
[Despite its name, this is a Greek recitation of the opening lines of the Odyssey by Dr. John Antill Pockley, an ophthalmic surgeon who went blind from a genetic disease, having prepared himself for that eventuality by building an inner life, which included teaching himself ancient Greek and learning the Iliad by heart; for more of Dr. Pockley's bardic journey see The Flight of Ducks(information provided by his son Simon Pockley). Requires Sound Machine.]
HOMERIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
NESTOR: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
HOMERIC LINKS
SEARCH ENGINES
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1896) Troy 1871 Mycenae 1876
Google
Metacrawler
Northern Light
What Do You Want to Know Today?
AltaVista
e-Blast
Email John Lynch at jplynch@ucsc.edu in the meantime.
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