{"id":60894,"date":"2021-11-21T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T23:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60894"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:45:56","slug":"homer","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/homer\/","title":{"rendered":"Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Homer<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"633fe1e4b38156574fca11830dcfccad\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR2a8f8d92668b922b4ea8a207a631442c\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR2a8f8d92668b922b4ea8a207a631442c\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR2a8f8d92668b922b4ea8a207a631442c\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60894?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR2a8f8d92668b922b4ea8a207a631442c&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60894?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR2a8f8d92668b922b4ea8a207a631442c\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: February 10, 2022<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Virginia Partners Bank Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives Lecture 2022: Homer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/664366043?h=63878a69ea&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi-210x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi-210x300.jpeg 210w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi-716x1024.jpeg 716w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi-768x1098.jpeg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi-1074x1536.jpeg 1074w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi-797x1140.jpeg 797w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Homer_BarbaraGraziosi.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p>Mark Twain had a school-boy declare: \u2018Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name\u2019 \u2013 which suggests that the myth of the author endures, despite scholarly attempts to debunk it. The earliest sources that mention Homer by name date to the sixth century BCE: from them we can establish that the Greeks considered Homer the greatest poet that ever lived, but also that they knew nothing certain about him. The situation has not changed much: to this day, Homer is often hailed as the greatest poet of all time \u2013 even though it is not even clear he existed.  This lecture considers two types of evidence in order to try and establish when, how, and by whom the Homeric poems were composed: textual hints contained within the <cite>Iliad<\/cite> and <cite>Odyssey<\/cite> and material clues revealed by the archaeology of the early Mediterranean. It also pays attention to what the Greeks had to say about Homer, not because their accounts necessarily reveal who composed the <cite>Iliad<\/cite> and the <cite>Odyssey<\/cite>, but because they illuminate how the poems were understood by their early audiences and how they continued to appeal to listeners and readers from antiquity to today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Barbara Graziosi<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Barbara-Graziosi-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Barbara-Graziosi-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Barbara-Graziosi-300x300.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Barbara-Graziosi-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Barbara-Graziosi-75x75.jpg 75w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/Barbara-Graziosi.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Barbara Graziosi was educated in Oxford and Cambridge and taught in Oxford, Reading, and Durham before moving to Princeton in 2018. Graziosi held fellowships at New College, Oxford, the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, and visiting professorships at a number of academic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Her research focuses on ancient Greek literature and the ways in which audiences and readers make it their own. This overall focus is expressed in a series of publications on ancient Greek literature and its reception, (in her support for innovative work in the digital humanities), as well as in her teaching, public engagement, and broadcasting. A substantial part of Graziosi\u2019s work explores Homeric epic: Her first book, <cite>Inventing Homer<\/cite> (Cambridge 2002) argues that early stories about Homer reveal how archaic and classical audiences imagined the poet and understood his poetry. <cite>Homer<\/cite> (Oxford 2016) summarizes Graziosi\u2019s current thinking on this author and the works attributed to him.<\/p>\n<p>The connections between ancient literature and its readers from different times and places are also important to her teaching and public engagement.  She was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award by Durham University (UK), as well as a National Teaching Fellowship, the highest recognition of excellence in higher education in the United Kingdom. An Excellence in Doctoral Supervision Award reflects her commitment to graduate teaching and, more importantly, the commitment and excellent research carried out by the students she supervised in the UK. Graziosi has contributed to several programmes for BBC television and radio, as well as for French and Italian television and the US History Channel. Her reviews on both classics and contemporary fiction have appeared in the <cite>Times Literary Supplement<\/cite>, the <cite>Times Higher Education<\/cite>, and <cite>The London Review of Books<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-60894","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1245","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Homer - 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