Kostas Myrsiades
Autore di Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
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Kostas Myrsiades is a professor emeritus of comparative and Greek literature and a distinguished translator and Neohellenist. He is the recipient of the Gold Medallion from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature (Athens, Greece) and the author of twenty books. He was also the editor of mostra altro College Literature, a quarterly journal of literary criticism, theory, and pedagogy. mostra meno
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Shawn Ross's essay on Homer as a historical source is badly organized and unconvincing; Rick Newton's examination of the parallels between geras and xeineia is fascinating if a trifle over-ambitious; John B. Vlahos's examination of books 19 and 23 of the Odyssey makes me so happy, for its respectful treatment of Penelope, I can't even tell you (she is smarter than you are, accept that and rejoice in it, okay); Scott Richardson's essay on conversation in the Od. is decent but heavy-going; Joel Christensen's close reading of telos muthon is not for non-classicists; Jonathan S. Burgess's discussion of Troy's historicism is a lot more nuanced than I would have expected, given the topic; Charles C. Chiasson's contrasting of the heroic model in Troy and the Iliad is unexpectedly fascinating; and the last two essays on It's a Wonderful Life and The Gunfighter are on movies I haven't seen and therefore can't assess.… (altro)