The Iliad (Summer Repeat)

In Our Time

BBC

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4.6 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great epic poem attributed to Homer, telling the story of an intense episode in the Trojan War. It is framed by the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles, insulted by his leader Agamemnon and withdrawing from the battle that continued to rage, only returning when his close friend Patroclus is killed by the Trojan hero Hector. Achilles turns his anger from Agamemnon to Hector and the fated destruction of Troy comes ever closer. With Edith Hall Professor of Classics at King's College London Barbara Graziosi Professor of Classics at Princeton University And Paul Cartledge A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture at Clare College, Cambridge Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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0:40.6	In our time is on its annual break and we'll be back on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds on
0:45.9	the 14th of September.
0:48.0	Until then, each week we're offering an episode from our archive of nearly 1,000
0:52.0	programmes, which I hope you'll enjoy.
0:54.5	Have a good summer.
0:56.3	Hello, the Iliad is one of the greatest works in world literature, one of the first and
1:00.6	most influential.
1:02.2	It explores a few crucial bloody weeks in the long Trojan War when the Greeks might win
1:06.7	at last, if only their greatest warrior, the godlike Achilles, will return to the fight
1:11.3	and forgive Agamemnon, the leader who pulled rank and put him into an ink plackable fury.
1:17.0	The perm is composed in the 8th century BC and attributed to Homer, yet the story is
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