S1E2: Epic!

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Episode 2: “Epic!” A. “Who Cares About Poems?” Sophie on why nobody pays attention to poetry anymore, but really, maybe no one ever did. B. “What is 'Ancient Greece,' and Why Is It Cool?” Amos on all the different kinds of Ancient Greece and the difficulties of historical imagination.Links:Donald Trump, the First President of Our Post-Literate Age - Bloomberg View — But as information gets more social -- taking on the immediate, short-form characteristics of Facebook and Twitter -- it acquires more qualities of the oral world. And that lends itself particularly well to politicians who think and communicate like Donald Trump. Poetry and the age: Randall Jarrell: Amazon.com: Books — "Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) | Twitter — Senior Editor, The New Republic 2. Work found here: http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/jeet-heer … 3. Twitter Essayist. HOMER'S SEA - WINE DARK? - NYTimes.com — IN another of the digressions that often give spice to the pursuit of science, scholars find themselves wrestling with the concept of Homer's ''wine-dark sea.'' The expression appears dozens of times in those epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet the sea in question, the Aegean, is no less blue or blue-green than any other. What did Homer have in mind? Pre-Socratic philosophy - Wikipedia