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Michial Farmer, Carla Godwin, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about books three and four of Homer’s Iliad.
Show Notes
- Our translations of the Iliad: Samuel Butler (1898), Richmond Lattimore (1951), and Stanley Lombardo (1997).
- Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals on the underhanded power of the priest:
The reader will have already surmised with what ease the priestly mode of valuation can branch off from the knightly aristocratic mode, and then develop into the very antithesis of the latter: special impetus is given to this opposition, by every occasion when the castes of the priests and warriors confront each other with mutual jealousy and cannot agree over the prize. The knightly-aristocratic “values” are based on a careful cult of the physical, on a flowering, rich, and even effervescing healthiness, that goes considerably beyond what is necessary for maintaining life, on war, adventure, the chase, the dance, the tourney—on everything, in fact, which is contained in strong, free, and joyous action. The priestly-aristocratic mode of valuation is—we have seen—based on other hypotheses: it is bad enough for this class when it is a question of war! Yet the priests are, as is notorious, the worst enemies—why? Because they are the weakest. Their weakness causes their hate to expand into a monstrous and sinister shape, a shape which is most crafty and most poisonous. The really great haters in the history of the world have always been priests, who are also the cleverest haters—in comparison with the cleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece of cleverness is practically negligible.
- Did Homer invent the Gilligan Cut?
- Like Brave Sir Robin, Paris ran away.
- Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.
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