Making the Myth Real: W. H. Auden's Homer and the 'Shield of Achilles' by Catherine Schlegel

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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