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Course description

Reading of selections of Homer's Odyssey, with an introduction to Homeric language and meter and the history of the poem. The course also includes a survey of Homeric linguistics, including the compositional background of the poems, the effect of meter and composition on Homeric language, and the dialect makeup of Homeric language.
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Instructors

Jeremy Rau

Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics, Harvard University
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