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\nAPRIL IS POETRY MONTH.
\nHomer&rsquo\;s "Iliad" spans twenty-fou r books\, fifteen-thousand lines\, and a matter of weeks in the tenth year of the Trojan War. A quarrel between two of the Greek commanders\, Achill es and Agamemnon\, sets into motion a series of events that will eventuall y lead to the fall of Troy\, though that fateful day remains just out of r each at the end of the poem. As a work of poetry\, the \;Iliad \;h as captivated and concerned listeners\, readers\, and scholars alike since antiquity. It looms large in the canon of Western literature for its age\ , its influence\, and its incredible scope and breadth of content. It emer ges from the transition between oral tradition and textual transmission\, and has been the subject of debate\, translation\, and adaptation since th e days when it was first sung on the Mediterranean. This presentation will provide an introduction to some of the major concerns for those engaging with the poem and of the poem itself\, including the so-called &ldquo\;Hom eric Question\,&rdquo\; the transition from orality to literacy\, and them es such as war\, trauma\, grief\, and anger. \;
\nPresenter: Gab rielle Roehr is a PhD student in Classical Studies at the University of Pe nnsylvania. She received her B.A. (summa cum laude\, Phi Beta Kappa) with high honors in Classics and a minor in Art History from New York Universit y in May of 2020. Her senior thesis\, titled &ldquo\;The Archaic Present: Nostalgia and Ideology in the Age of Augustus\,&rdquo\; examined the inter section of art and politics and the creation and maintenance of ideology i n Augustan Rome\, with special attention paid to Vergil&rsquo\;s "Aeneid"\ , Livy&rsquo\;s "Ab Urbe Condita"\, the "Forum Augustum"\, and the "Monume ntum Ancyranum". She began the PhD program in Classical Studies at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania in September of the same year. Her research intere sts include topics of myth\, memory\, grief\, trauma\, and identity\, with a particular focus on Greek and Latin epic poetry.
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