English-language and German-language cultures both claim the same shared classical Greek tradition. Even though knowledge of classical Greek is hardly wide spread, the Iliad and Odyssey are familiar to a wide audience through translations and other rewritings across different genres and media, from fiction to non-fiction, prose and poetry to film, stage, and the internet. Ideological and aesthetic considerations shape these rewritings within the particular national and cultural contexts. Rewriters may, for instance, pursue or eschew the performative aspects of the texts, cutting parts considered repetitive in modern prose or finding ways to stage parts of the text across continents. One might see in the texts a way to educate about PTSD or an avenue for addressing generational consequences of war. On both continents the texts also serve as the first great Story, to be retold and refashioned. [Go to the full record in the library's catalogue]
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