ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r's Landscapes: The Iliad
Adam Nicolson traces the origins of poems at the root of European thought, visiting the locations of the Trojan War in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r's Iliad.
Adam Nicolson travels along the eastern Mediterranean, from the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to trace the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought.
Adam travels to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r's Troy, walking the plains and visiting the ruins of its citadel, finding that although ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r is thought to have been blind, it is possible to directly map ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r's great poem of war onto the coastline of the Aegean, the beach of the Greek camp, the Scamander River and the hewn stone walls of Troy.
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The Iliad: epic landscapes and lyrical death scenes (audio)
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Hector and Achilles: fate and free will in the Iliad (audio)
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The Trojan war as described in The Iliad (audio)
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- Sun 6 Apr 2008 21:50ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
- Thu 30 Jul 2009 22:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
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