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For thousands of years, Homer's early epic poem the Iliad has enchanted visitors from surrounding the world. After you join Professor Vandiver because of this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped more and more people. Her powerful 12-lecture understand this literary masterpiece - be it the work of several authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - helps it be vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever informed but also one of the most powerful meditations on the real human condition ever written. As you'll learn, the grandeur and immediacy of Homer's world would seem to be to defy time and space. Throughout these lectures, you'll explore this legendary era in fantastic, remarkable hues. You'll meet its towering heroes who thirst for honor and the gods who encouraged and instigated them. You'll go deep inside the shattering battles at Troy that take action out mankind's great passions for glory, love, and vengeance. But more than that, you'll concentrate on the timeless real human issues this masterpiece increases, all of them evoked by the energy of a single dramatic question: How come Achilles trend? The limits of freedom, the common humanity we talk about, the line between justice and revenge, the type of destiny, the meaning of life - Professor Vandiver uses the Iliad as a potent lens by which to study all of them.
