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Seana McKenna o Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad"

“If you want the world to be a better place…open your eyes wide and keep your mouth open.” Seana McKenna talks Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad.

SOURCE: The Grand Theatre (2019), posted on YouTube, [3:29 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/WAm4QvLhCKY

Photograph 51 and The Penelopiad - Comparative

SOURCE: Lisa Tran (2019), posted on YouTube, [8:42 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/ogcVHFp_bvA

A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey

In which John Green teaches you about Homer's Odyssey. If it was Homer's If Homer was even real. Anyway, that stuff doesn't really matter. John teaches you the classic, by which I mean classical, epic poem, the Odyssey. The Journey of Odysseus as he made his way home after the conclusion of the Trojan War is the stuff of legend. Literally. John will teach you about the double standard in Greek culture, Odysseus as jerk/hero, ancient PTSD, and cycles of violence.

SOURCE: Crash Course Literature (2014) , posted on YouTube, Duration: 12:06 mins, URL: https://youtu.be/MS4jk5kavy4

Everything you need to know to read Homer's Odyssey

An encounter with a man-eating giant. A sorceress who turns men into pigs. A long-lost king taking back his throne. On their own, any of these make great stories. But each is just one episode in the "Odyssey," a 12,000-line poem spanning years of ancient Greek history and legend. So how do we make sense of this massive text? Jill Dash shares everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey.”

SOURCE: TED-Ed (2017), posted on YouTube, Duration: 4:56 mins URL: https://youtu.be/8Z9FQxcCAZ0