Literature Resources

General

A BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Trojan War: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j6srl  

A BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on epic poetry: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548t1     

4.5 Homer

A short cartoon outlining the story of the Iliad. There is also a linked page outlining the key characters: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/classical-studies/troy-story-homers-iliad-and-odyssey   

Some useful resources for teaching the Iliad (and the Odyssey): https://teachingresourcesforenglish.wikispaces.com/The+Iliad+and+The+Odyssey 

Some short video presentations on key themes about the Homeric poems: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/homer.html  

4.6 Tyrtaeus

A detailed scholarly analysis of what little we know of Tyrtaeus: https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/4922    

An anthology of Tyrtaeus’ poems: http://demonax.info/doku.php?id=text:tyrtaeus_poems    

4.7 Horace

A useful teaching resource from the Poetry Society encouraging a comparison between Horace’s poem and that of Wilfred Owen: http://resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Dulce-et-Decorum-Est.pdf   

4.8 Virgil

Some useful resources on the Aeneid: http://www.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Aeneid.html  

The homepage of the Virgil Society: http://www.virgilsociety.org.uk/index.htm  

A BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Aeneid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9c1  

Some short video presentations on key themes in the Aeneid: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/aeneid.html  

Useful background information to the Aeneid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Ey43CrOb0