Using Robert Fagles’ translation of the Iliad, we will do a close reading and discussion of the book. Our main focus will be on Homer’s characters and what they tell us about life, death, and war. We will also spend some time looking at the forms and devices of epic poetry.
This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Wednesdays from January 23 through March 6. It will be led by Instructor Marilyn Scott who was a lecturer in Classics and Great Books at UM and taught Latin and English at Ann Arbor’s Community High School.