HeroesX v07 Office Hours 03 | Sappho's Iliad, and Is the Iliad Pro-war? @KosmosSociety2024

Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

Discussion topics include:
Sappho and the Iliadic tradition
Is the Iliad pro-war? Does the tradition ignore suffering in its pursuit of kleos?
How does it incorporate the experience of women?
How can we connect these poems to our modern lives without projecting our own values onto the ancient works?

Recorded in Spring 2017 during v7 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 5 and 6, and comments and questions from participants.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and Claudia Filos.

HeroesX v07 Office Hours 03 | Sapphos Iliad, and Is the Iliad Pro-war?

HeroesX v05 Office Hours 05 | Bodies of Heroes, Elpenor, Disconnection

HeroesX v12 Office Hours 02 | Achilles the Lover

HeroesX v13 Office Hours 07 | Whats Right and Whats Wrong?

HeroesX v13 Office Hours 05 | Odysseus: Bad Press All Around?

HeroesX v10 Office Hours 03 | Heroes as Healers; Female Song Traditions in Iliad

HeroesX v06 Office Hours 08 | Nostalgic Viewpoints, What “Homer” Knew

HeroesX v06 Office Hours 01 | Iliad 1 and Iliad 9

HeroesX v14 Office Hours 09 | Tragedy, Anger, and Agamemnon

HeroesX v07 Office Hours Extras 01 | Oedipus, Lameness, and Being Upright

HeroesX v10 Office Hours 10 | Poseidon at Colonus, Sphinx’s Riddle as Nightmare