History: The Hero’s Quest

•        0 “Perseus Vase Catalogue” Website of Perseus’s online catalogue of vase images with depictions of Odysseus. Images selected will provide reference numbers and locations of where the items are.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifactSearch?q=Odysseus&image=yes

•         “Odysseus’ Ship” The History Channel presents an short video (4:00) with footage of a 1988 discovery of an ancient ship that is comparable to the one described in The Odyssey.

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/greek-mythology/videos/odysseus-ship?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false

Theory: The Quest Hero

•         “Auden and Elvish” by Erin Overbey for The New Yorker. This article introduces the admiration Auden had for J.R.R. Tolkein and his thoughts on the latter’s modern work on heroic quests.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/auden-and-elvish

Comparison: Mesopotamia and Rome: Gilgamesh and Aeneas

•         “A History of the World in 100 Objects” podcast (15:00) presented by the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor. This episode discusses the Flood Tablet and in particular one Assyrian tablet (700-600 BCE)—which includes a part of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/GOe8Mt6vRdSNcg-yeivrEA

Reception: African American Odysseus

•         “Book Club of the Air: Their Eyes Were Watching God” podcast on NPR hosted by Melinda Penkava and featuring guest Mary Helen Washington Professor of English and African American Literature, University of Maryland at College Park.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1070428