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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Philip Walsh and Rachel Hadas!
-Classical Reception Studies
-"44 Pastorals" by Rachel Hadas
-Prosimetra/Haibun
-"Prose of Departure" by James Merrill
-"Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms" ed. by David Lehman
-"Personal Best: Makers On Their Poems That Matter Most"
-In praise of postludes
-Rachel’s Euripides and Dionysiaca
-"Achilles and Odysseus” by Susan McLean
-“Mimesis” by Erich Auerbach
-“Imaginary Conversations” by Walter Savage Landor
-“The Songs of the Kings” by Barry Unsworth
-“Circe” by Madeleine Miller
-“The King Must Die” by Mary Renault
-“Iphigenia” dir. Michael Cacoyannis
-“The Silence of the Girls” by Pat Barker
-The Feminist re-telling of Classical myths trend
-“Liber Tertius Decimus” by Julia Griffin
-“After the Fall” by David Katz
-“The Mazemaker” by Michael Ayrton
-“Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths” by Charlotte Higgins
-“Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In” by Henry Eliot
-“The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges
-“The Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
-“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden
-D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths
-“Theseus and the Minotaur” by Edwin Muir
-“Megalopolis” dir. Francis Ford Coppola
-The Classical Outlook takes Princeton!
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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
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