Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson discussion

This is a thread to discuss the influence of Homer's The Odyssey on Joyce's Ulysses.

We had a reading group which combined both (a different translation for Homer).... It went well.

I’m currently doing this. Finally focusing on Ulysses. Thanks, Kris!

Be still my little heart!

From the New York Times, a "By the Book" interview of Daniel Mendelsohn, author of An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/bo...

Ken wrote: "From the New York Times, a "By the Book" interview of Daniel Mendelsohn, author of An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/bo...-..."

I am currently reading it now. Almost finished. Am loving it. Thanks for the link to the interview.

Ken wrote: "From the New York Times, a "By the Book" interview of Daniel Mendelsohn, author of An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/bo......"

I noted this by Mendelson: "One of my favorite teaching experiences was when I participated in Bard’s Prison Initiative last autumn, teaching Sophocles and Euripides to the inmates at a maximum-security facility about an hour from campus. I was blown away by the men’s responses to the texts we read — by the way in which they brought what they knew about violence and shame and disgrace and guilt to dramas that are, of course, about those very things. As you can imagine, it was very different from what even the smartest 19-year-old undergraduates can bring to the seminar table."

Probably because a book I am currently reading is Michelle Kuo's Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship. What has been most disturbing to me about that book is its description of some of the unintended consequences of desegregation on the quality of education available, at least in the communities Kuo comments upon.