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Global Creative Economy: Toni Simmons-Henson, Atlanta Black Theater Festival

Cinversations of the Creative Economy continue as we turn our lens globally. We're talking to the Executive Director of the Atlanta Black Theater Festival, Toni Simmons-Henson. We just linked up with her in Ghana and now that we are back in the States , we're talking about the challenges and triump…

Milman Perry and Albert Lord (BONUS 1, Epi 26, S5)

Andrew Hulse, producer of Helicon Theatrical Productions, discusses the scholar of epic poetry, Milman Perry, and his associate Albert Lord. Hulse promotes Lord's book The Singer of Tales as a "wacky and mind bending…" experience. Albert Bates Lord was a professor of Slavic and comparative lite…

LW - Does literacy remove your ability to be a bard as good as Homer? by Adrià Garriga-alonso

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Does literacy remove your ability to be a bard as good as Homer?, published by Adrià Garriga-alonso on January 19, …

Trojan Horse or Trojan Hoax? Was There a Real Trojan War?

The discoveries of Troy and Mycenaean Greece in the 19th century led to a shift in attitudes toward Ancient Greek legends. If archaeology showed that Troy had existed, was it possible that the Trojan War saga had its basis in historical fact? In this episode, Scott Emmons sifts through clues from t…

‘Her completely gorgeous bed of love’—Homer in English

Odyssey 10.336-407 How long do Odysseus and Circe make love to each other? What a rude and intrusive question, but science can have little regard for privacy if it is to be comprehensive. Unfortunately no one was around with a stopwatch, or any sort of atomic timepiece from a lab. But still availab…

Homer’s Harmonia: In the Beginning ... was the Musical Word

Let’s take stock of what’s been said. I was stopped short in this performative journey through the Odyssey by the problem of how to think and talk about Persephone. Perhaps there is a significance hidden to me in such a blockage. Homer himself gives us next to nothing about the goddess, apart from …

Musing on Homer - Ep. 2

Hello Everyone! Another episode where I answer some listener questions and ramble on about whatever else I’ve been reading on Homer! This time I discuss, in broad strokes, how Homer is foundational to our western notion of literature, the attitude of women in Homer to their (usually) unfortunate fa…

Odyssey Book 1/Albert Lord Singer of Tales

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In this episode, Tristan and Noah read book 1 of the Odyssey and Albert Lord's Singer of Tales. Texts referenced in this episode: Bandersnatch. Directed by David Slade, House of Tomorrow and Netflix, 2018. Netflix, netflix.com Heubeck, Alf…