Preview: From a two hour interview with Professor Emily Wilson re her new translation of the Illia, characterizing the troublemakers Aphrodite and Ares on the battlefild before the gates of Troy.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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LATE 5TH CENTURY ILIAD
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| 0:31.1 | Conversation with Professor Emily Wilson, the University of Pennsylvania, |
| 0:35.4 | whose new translation of the Iliad winning much attention because it's easier to read. |
| 0:40.8 | It's an iambic pentameter. The professor worked on it for years in order to render |
| 0:46.2 | it easy. If you're familiar with the Shakespearean language and the way the English turns, this is |
| 0:52.2 | straightforward. In this section, my conversation with the |
| 0:56.0 | professor, she illustrates that the quote, all gods are dangerous if you get in their way the two gods of interest here |
| 1:06.5 | of concern are Aphrodite the goddess of lust and desire and Ariz the goddess of war and destruction. They work |
| 1:17.0 | together in order to make trouble on the battlefield for the Greeks, the Aikians |
| 1:22.3 | and the Trojans. |
| 1:24.7 | And in particular, Aphrodite Troubles Paris, |
| 1:28.0 | who begins this whole fiasco by abducting or persuading or seducing or just running off with Helen, the wife of Manilayas. |
| 1:38.8 | It's a melodrama. |
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