“He was an incredibly rich man. He'd made his money through trade, in sort of indigo, in I want to say coffee, um, maybe it was tea, i this sort of thing. He's a he's a great sort of businessman of the time, and he was an amateur archaeologist. So not trained in any way? No. No, so he very much went over to where he was told Troy might be with his copy of Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, and, you know, his kind of digging equipment”
“Right, and this is the world that gives us We think the aliad and the honesty”
“Homer is the author, according to the Greeks, of the Iliad and the Odyssey”
“The Odyssey is the second of the great Homeric works. The first being the Iliad”
“Every year since the college opened, thirteen years ago, Edo has been teaching the Iliad by Homer”
“the house of Atreides that's taken right from Agamemnon's house in in the in the Iliad and the Odyssey”
“if you read Homer, you know, Achilles is, you know, bawling and throwing ash on himself when his buddy Patroclus dies in the Trojan War”
“Like we used to read the Iliad of Homer a lot at home”
“He read Homer all of his life and knew the passages by heart. It was to him a Bible. A guide to heroic morality. A book of etiquette. In a true adventure story”
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