Transcript: Hearing Homer, and Finding an Adventure

MICHELE NORRIS
NPR All Things Considered
04-09-2007
Hearing Homer, and Finding an Adventure

Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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MICHELE NORRIS, host:

Long before "The Simpsons" made Homer a household name, another and very different Homer achieved a measure of celebrity the Greek poet Homer, who was thought to have lived in the 8th century B.C., gets credit for writing the epic poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey."

Professor STAMIN LAMBARDO(ph) (University of Kansas): (Reading) (Greek Spoken)

NORRIS: That's Professor Stanley Lambardo of the University of Kansas, reading the ancient Greek text. Lambardo also translated the poems to English.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu ...

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