Milman Parry's guest appearances

Milman Parry

KPFA - Letters and Politics

Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio

A Saz e a Lira

Jim Thorpe

Theodore Roosevelt

Yanis Varoufakis

Karen Armstrong

Bernie Sanders

John Muir

Henry David Thoreau

Noam Chomsky

James Joyce

James Loewen

Gerald Horne

Genghis Khan

Matt Taibbi

Raj Patel

James Baldwin

OwlTail

Guest: Robert Kanigel, author of Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry. The post Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert Kanigel, author of Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry. The post <a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-december-20-2022/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer</a> appeared first on <a href="https://kpfa.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KPFA</a>.

Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer

Robert Kanigel

Is it possible that The Iliad and The Odyssey, with over 25,000 lines between them, originated in oral tradition rather than written texts? This is the story of a young Classics student who set out to prove it.

Milman Parry - Hearing Homer's Song by Robert Kanigel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syMUPUvTOUY&amp;t=95sGuest: Robert Kanigel is Professor Emeritus of Science Writing at MIT and the author of several books for which he has received many awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEH "Public Scholar" grant.  His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; it has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. Professor's Kanigel latest book is Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syMUPUvTOUY&amp;t=95s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syMUPUvTOUY&amp;t=95s</a> Guest: Robert Kanigel is Professor Emeritus of Science Writing at MIT and the author of several books for which he has received many awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEH "Public Scholar" grant.  His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; it has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. Professor's Kanigel latest book is Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry.