Professor Kozlowski reluctantly addresses the epic poem regarded by the Medievals and Renaissance writers as the greatest ever written - Virgil's Aeneid.  Does Virgil deserve this legacy, or is the poem merely a work of Roman self-justifying propaganda?

CW: Discussions of suicide, relationship abuse, misogyny, and fascist Roman bullsh*t

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Professor Kozlowski examines the complicated relationship between Rome and Homer, from Rome's origins as a melting pot of cultures defined and informed by Homeric epic, to insatiable need to distance itself from Greek culture, to the transforming ascendancy of Christianity in Rome's last days.

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Enough of this history nonsense.  Professor Kozlowski returns to form with a deep-dive examination of Euripides' The Trojan Women, looking especially at the way Euripides uses (and abuses) Homeric form, theme, and content to make a compelling political argument preventing the greatest political and military catastrophe in the history of Athens.  Spoiler alert: it doesn't work.

CW: Discussion of rape and trauma in the fallout of Troy's destruction, plus generally depressing material throughout

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Professor Kozlowski finally reaches the Classical Age of Greece, lightly sketching the role of Homer's epics in the development of Greek culture, including the self-identity of city-states like Athens and Sparta, the literary indebtedness of the Tragedy to the Epic, the reactions of Greek philosophers to Homeric teaching, and the development of myth into history.

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Professor Kozlowski contextualizes the writings of Homer according to the archaeological and historical evidence of the Greek culture from its earliest origins in the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures, through the Bronze Age Collapse and subsequent Dark Age, to the very beginning of the Classical era.  Along the way we'll examine what Homer got right about the Bronze Age, what he imported from the Iron Age, and what that might mean about his sources, the tradition of Greek Epic, and his own artistic priorities.

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Professor Kozlowski lightly examines the archaeological excavations in Hisarlik, considered by the academic community to be the most likely site of Ancient Troy, in order to discuss how much of Homer's Iliad is based in reality, and how much of it is purely myth.

CORRECTION: The Mask of Agamemnon was found at Schliemann's excavation of MYCENAE - NOT HISARLIK

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Professor Kozlowski continues his examination of the Odyssey as Odysseus' crew (and the gods) betray him into destroying his ship, as he finally reaches his homeland of Ithaca, and as he tests (and is tested by) his wife, Penelope.

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Professor Kozlowski follows the narrated adventures of Odysseus through the first three books of his four-book narration.  Highlights include cannibal cyclopes, bad crew behavior, drugs, good and bad hosts, good and bad guests, more drugs, dead people, spousal murder, and yet more drugs.

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Professor Kozlowski embarks on a grand (if heavily abridged) journey through the Odyssey.  Now including exclusive footage of Helen of Troy restored to Sparta and acting especially...strangely.

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Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of the Iliad with some aimless ruminating, a recap of the Patroclus Memorial Olympics, some more shade on Achilles, and the restoration of Hector's body to his family.  Next week - Odyssey!

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