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University College Enrichment Program
Fall 2020 Enrichment Program Catalog
Fall 2020 five-session course (Tuesday evenings):
December 8, 15, 22, January 5, 12 (no class on 12/29)
6:30-8:30pm
online (via Zoom) with class size limited to 23
Note on Translations
I will be using the 1965 translation of Richmond Lattimore (current edition published by Harper-Collins, ISBN 978-0061244186). But students are welcome to use the translation of their choice, keeping in mind that choosing a translation often involves a difficult set of trade-offs when it comes to readability, accuracy, and the inevitability of a translator's interpretive prejudice. Certainly Lattimore's translation is not the most beautiful or exciting one, but by and large it comes closest to the original Greek without crossing the line into unreadability or interpretive prejudice. It also corresponds very closely to the line numbers in the Greek text (as does the new Emily Wilson translation), a feature which makes things much easier when it comes to finding one's place in the text and taking advantage of powerful online tools for analysis.
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