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SUMMARY:Homer's Deep - Professor Shane Butler\, Bristol University
DTSTART:20141024T161500Z
DTEND:20141024T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Fragmented\, buried\, and largely lost\, the classical past pr
 esents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. “Deep C
 lassics” is the study of these obstacles and\, in particular\, of the wa
 y in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles — and has e
 ven provided a model for — other kinds of human endeavor. This lecture o
 ffers a “Deep Classics” test case: Achilles\, in his anguish\, stares 
 out from the Trojan shore. What does he see\, in the “wine-dark” sea? 
 Our search for an answer takes us on an unexpected journey to Victorian Br
 itain\, where John Addington Symonds famously looked back to Ancient Greec
 e in order to look forward to the liberation of “unspeakable” love. As
  we shall see\, the key to this act of imagination lay less in what Symond
 s came to know about the past than it did in what his sources resolutely f
 ailed to clarify.
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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