TA Summer Institute Essays
 

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GENERAL

Berger - "On the Obsolescence of the Concept of Honor"

Griffin - "Death and the God-Like Hero"

Kott - "The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Green Tragedy"

Link - "On Epic"

Otto - "Athena" The Homeric Gods

Otto - "Introduction" The Homeric Gods

Padel - "Blood in the Mind"

Schein - "Chapter 2: The Gods" The Mortal Hero

Scully - "Oikos and Polis in the Homeric Poems"

Thornton - "The Phases in the Movement of the Cosmos"

Vernant - "Mortals and Immortals: The Body of the Divine"

Whitman - "Fire and Other Elements"

AENEID

Adler - "Aeneas and the Heroes"

Bono - "The Dido Episode"

Mandelbaum - "Introduction" The Aeneid

Parry - "The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid"

Quinn - "The Tempo of Virgilian Epic"

DIVINE COMEDY

Fergusson - "The Metaphor of the Journey"

Freccero - "Manfred's Wounds and the Poetics of the Purgatorio"

Meeker - "The Comedy of Dante's Comedy"

Sayers - "Introduction" The Divine Comedy

Singleton - "The Three Lights" Journey to Beatrice

Williams - "Introduction" The Figure of Beatrice

ILIAD

Bespaloff - "On the Iliad"

Mueller - "Knowledge and Delusion in the Iliad"

Owen - "The Farewell of Hector and Andromache"

Redfield - "The Hero"

Schein - "Achilles: One"

Willcock - "Some Aspects of the Gods in the Iliad"

MOBY-DICK

Auden - "The Christian Tragic Hero: Contrasting Captain Ahab's Doom and its Classic Greek Prototype"

Bezanson - "Moby-Dick: Work of Art"

Buell - "Moby-Dick as Sacred Text"

Garrison - "Melville's Doubloon and the Shield of Achilles"

Lawrence, D.H. - "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick"

Robinson - "Call me Jonah" American Apocalypses

Slochower - "Moby-Dick: The Myth of Democratic Expectancy"

ODYSSEY

Amory - "The Reunion of Odysseus and Penelope"

Dimock - "The Name of Odysseus"

Dodds - "On Misunderstanding Oedipus Rex"

Segal - "Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey"

Slatkin - "Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey"

Whitman - "Apocalypse: Oedipus at Colonus"