Return of the Old Gods in Germany | Episode LII

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In the opening lecture of his course on Homer, the Professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg, Phillip Melanchthon, first invokes the aid of the gods and declares that to Homer belongs "the highest and noblest place." Further, Melanchthon proclaims that Homer "alone snatches away the palm of victory from all poets that any age has brought forth, and he leaves them all far behind." Jonathan and Ryan take a look at Melanchthon's encomium for Homer and defense against the many varieties of Homeric critics, both ancient and modern.

Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO

C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781107604704

Homer's Iliad (Greek-English): https://amzn.to/3O2sBEd

Homer's Odyssey (Greek-English): https://amzn.to/46DbOPe

New Humanists Episode on T.S. Eliot's Vergil and Christian World: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/was-virgil-divinely-inspired-episode-xxxiii/id1570296135?i=1000582748821

Daoiri Farrell's The Valley of Knockanure: https://youtu.be/lu-FG92a9Cw

New Humanists Episode on Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-iliad-or-the-poem-of-force-episode-xxi/id1570296135?i=1000557727910

Herodotus' The Histories: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781400031146

Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta Oratio: https://amzn.to/3JS7y4D

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Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com