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Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time

How Could I Overlook Odysseus!?

The Purpose of Speech?

Homer and Artificial Intelligence Workshop

Talking to Horses

Workshop Reminder: Homer and Artificial Intelligence, This Week

Ashamed and Afraid

Workshop Announcement: Homer and Artificial Intelligence

No Space for Dionysus

Does Homer Make Sh*t up?

The Rage of Hera and a Dehumanized World

The Dance-off of the Pygmies and Cranes

An Odyssey through Homeric Minds

Testing the Greeks (and their Audience)

Managing Achilles

Extraordinary, but Ordinary

Heroic Actions, Divine Choices?

Saying Things, Doing Things

Equal Prizes!

Democracy in the Scholia to the Iliad

Homeric Force and Formulaic Language

The Gift of Performance

Psycho Killers

A (not so) Epic Movie

Raging about Achilles!

A Catalogue of Bits

Artificial Intelligence And Homer

Absent Fathers and Their Absent Sons

"Time to Rouse the Dead*"

Laughing at Homer

Historical Psychology

How to Read Homer

Revolt! In the Iliad!

After the Epic's End

The Burial of Horse-Taming Hektor

"Better off Dead"

Starving Then Stoned

Priam And Achilles, Pity and Fear

"Blow Up Your TV"

"As If He Were Going to His Death"

Disfiguring the Fallow Earth

Achilles' Wicked Deeds

Rage Won't Raise the Dead

That Mare is Mine!

A New Widow and Her Orphan

Laying My Burdens Down

Hektor's Body and the Burden

They're Just Not That Into Us

You're Gonna Die Too, Friend

What Do You Do With a Problem Like Achilles?

The Gamemaster's Anger and Fear

Spears and Stones will Break Your Bones But Words Will Always Shape You

Concerns For Those About To Die

Dead and Gentle Forever

That Other Me

People Are Going to Tell Our Story

The Power to Control the World

The Personal Political

Things to Do in Ilium When You’re Dead

Always Second Best (Or Worst)

A Doublet Disposed

Rescuing the Bod(ies)

Merely the Third To Kill Me

Even Zeus Suffers

There's Plenty of Crying in Epic

The Powerful Mind of Zeus

Brothers, Sisters, Wives, and Divine (Dis)Order

Zeus and 'Righting' the Divine Constitution

Falling Asleep after Sex and Other Cosmic Problems

Where Did Homeric Book Divisions Come From?

What A Dangerous Thing to Say!

A Heroic Tale Curtailed

Stop and Hear the Stories!

Epic Narratives and their Local Sidekicks

The Iliad's Longest Day

Scarcity and the Iliad

Why Must We Fight and Die?

Looking Up and Out