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Wes Callihan introduces the Iliad of Homer - reads first lines in ancient Greek!
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Wesley Callihan, author and course presenter of Old Western Culture: A Christian Approach to the Great Books, a literature course for high school and above, discusses the Iliad. He talks about the various translations available, his favorite translation and why, and reads the first lines of the Iliad in the original Greek!
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Wes Callihan's annotated copy of the Iliad
The Epics is part of the series "The Greeks" (Old Western Culture)
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