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#1656 - Valerie Smitherman Out Of The Blank
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- Society & Culture
Valerie Smitherman is a classicist researching the points of contact between Ancient Greek and Bedouin poetry. Having a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek from the University of Bergen, Norway in 2016. Since then has been working on different ways to connect ancient poetry with modern people. Valerie is back to discuss the "Iliad" an epic poem in 24 books that is traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The epic is about the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles. The subject of this poem is the Trojan War.
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Valerie Smitherman is a classicist researching the points of contact between Ancient Greek and Bedouin poetry. Having a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek from the University of Bergen, Norway in 2016. Since then has been working on different ways to connect ancient poetry with modern people. Valerie is back to discuss the "Iliad" an epic poem in 24 books that is traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The epic is about the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles. The subject of this poem is the Trojan War.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support
1 hr 18 min
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