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Making the Myth Real: W. H. Auden's Homer and the 'Shield of Achilles' by Catherine Schlegel
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Mills C, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Catherine Schlegel, an
expert in Greek and Roman poetry as well as translation and reception studies,
will deliver a lecture on Auden’s reworking of Homer’s Iliad in “The Shield of Achilles.” An award-winning teacher and
director of undergraduate studies for the Classics program at the University of
Notre Dame, she is the author of Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace’s
Satires Book I, and co-author with Henry Weinfield of Hesiod: The Works
and Days and Theogony: A Verse Translation and Commentary.
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