By Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott

An Introduction to Book 17 of the Iliad

This year’s Homer Multitext Summer Seminar at the Center for Hellenic Studies will focus on book 17 of the Iliad as transmitted in a variety of medieval manuscripts.

I wasn’t supposed to learn Greek. Growing up in Louisiana, French had always been my thing. I was a girl who enjoyed earning gold stars and the approval of my teachers, so even though I very much liked the unit on Greek mythology we had in 6th grade, when I had the opportunity to take Latin starting in 7th grade, I don’t think it even occurred to me to make the switch.