The Homer Homepage

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Texts

The Iliad with online footnotes by the Perseus Project
The Odyssey with online footnotes by the Perseus Project
The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler, from Carnegie-Mellon University
The Odyssey translated by George Chapman, from Project Bartleby, Columbia University
The Homeric Hymns

Iliad An excerpt read by Anthony Quayle; from Harper Audio, in Real Audio format

The Homer Web Page from the U. of Massachusetts English Dept. Background on Greek mythology; the Trojan War; and plot, character, and themes in the Iliad and Odyssey
Rivendell's Homer Page
Homer from World Cultures, A Reader and Online Course, by Richard Hooker. Presents cultural, historical, and literary background on the Iliad and Odyssey.
Homer from MythNET
The Homeric Gods notes from a classics course by John Porter
Annotated Bibliography from Penguin Books
A Homer Bibliography from Diotima
Homeric Geography A map from Reed College showing Trojan war heroes and their cities

The Iliad background by Roger Dunkle, Brooklyn College
Plot Outline for Homer's Iliad & List of Principal Characters by John Porter (based on an original by D.J. Conacher)
The Mythological Background of Homer's Iliad Notes for a classics course by John Porter
The Trojan War (based on Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, by Carlos Parada). Includes summary of Trojan war story, and passage from Thucydides on the war.
The Iliad as Oral Formulaic Poetry by John Porter
The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age by John Porter
Study Questions for Homer's Iliad by Lewis Stiles
How the Trojan War Began background by Richard Koshak

Overview of Archaic & Classical Greek History by Thomas Martin
Homeric Society Notes for a classics course by John Porter
The Archaic Age and the Rise of the Polis by john Porter
Astronomy Background for Homer's Works from The Observatory of The University of the South
A Guided Web Tour of Homer's Greece Links to archaelogical sites found in the Iliad and Odyssey

Homeric Questions, Part II: Homer Nodding Discusses the contributions of Parry and Lord to the theory of oral composition.
Introduction to the Topic of Homeric Performance The Introduction to a panel entitled The Performance of Homeric Epic, published in Didaskalia 3/3. The panel consists of
- Thunder but no Clouds: the Genesis of the Homeric Text by Richard Janko
- Performance Dynamics and the Internal Audiences of the Odyssey by Lillian Doherty
- Homer and South Slavic Epic by John Miles Foley
- Homer and Appalachian Bluegrass by John Wright

The Fall of Troy: A Multimedia Path A series of 28 images of the Fall of Troy, with commentary by Mark Morford and Daniel Holmes, University of Virginia
The Trojan War Images from vase paintings and other classical artifacts, and from European paintings. From Mythmedia by Ora Zehavi and Dr. Sonia Klinger, University of Haifa
Images of the Trojan War Myth from the Temple University Classics Department. A catalog of many images from various sources, primarily vase paintings from Perseus.
A Papyrus Fragment of Iliad 22, 111-149 from Duke University
A Roman mosaic of Homer and Calliope from the Vichten Mosaic; essay by J-Cl. Muller, University of Toronto. Online display from The National Museum of Art and History, Luxembourg.
The Trojan War Lantern slides from the Lantern Slide Preservation Project, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University (lantern slides from the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica from The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Commentary on the Aeneid Virgil's imitation of Homer
Homeric Parallels of 'Nausicaa' and 'Oxen of the Sun' from The Pomona Joyce Page
Odysseus and the Historians An article by John Marincola from HISTOS, showing the influence of Odysseus the storyteller and hero on Greek historians
A Daidalos in the late-modern age? Transplanting Homer into Derek Walcott's The Odyssey: A stage version Abstract of a paper by Lorna Hardwick
Helen of Troy A poem by Sara Teasdale
Home at Last by Steely Dan
Homer's Odyssey An Episode of the Simpsons
Oudeis, A World Wide Odyssey An Internet-staged drama based on the Odyssey
Homer's Odyssey: The Miniseries

Homerica A project from the University of Grenoble. Pages include
The Odyssey Project An archaeological project founded by Professor Sarantis Symeonoglou to determine the relationship between the ancient remains on the island of Ithaka and the Ithaka detailed in Homer's Odyssey. See especially Summary of the Work.

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