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    Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books:Hebrews and Greeks
    Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books:Hebrews and Greeks
    Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books:Hebrews and Greeks
    Audiobook8 hours

    Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books:Hebrews and Greeks

    Written by Timothy B. Shutt

    Narrated by Timothy B. Shutt

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in chronological sequence-a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in their own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. In the process, the course engages many of the most perennial and far-reaching questions that we face in our daily lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 16, 2009
    ISBN9781436173117
    Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books:Hebrews and Greeks

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      This is a very Western Civilization minded series of lectures that focuses on the Great Books of the West and draws together events and evidence of those events in order to place these works of literature, and occasionally art, in a context that leads listeners from Then to Now in a coherent way. The lectures are given by four different professors, three of whom I’d heard before and enjoyed utterly, and allow them to focus on one or two people or events or aspects of the time frame given.My only real complaint is that the Hebrews get three lectures, and the Babylonians only one. I understand that we are obsessed academically with how much we owe to Plato and Aristotle and Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, et al., but there are other influences. Fortunately, one of the biggest themes of these lectures is the challenge to self-directed learning. Everyone, to a professor, encourages listener/learners to go out into the world, away from their audio devices, and read these books, travel to these lands, interact with the works face to face. It is absolutely contagious, this excitement to learn.I understand that there are many who believe that literature is most Truthfully studied apart from its historical or social context, but I am not really one of those people. Particularly in the case of ancient drama, or any drama that is from a time or culture with which I am unfamiliar. It seems to me that much like the act of theatre itself, any long-lasting understanding of the work is going to require submersion in the event: in the event of the drama. Given the oral nascence of the works of philosophers and bards (Plato and Homer specifically), the idea that a lecture is going to convey more about the world in which these works were created than a book is probably not far off. I recommend these lectures to anyone who is reading these materials for a course, or who is building a reading history and would like an accessible and solid introduction to these works. The lectures are engaging, the professors are clear and easy to listen to and the time is very well spent.It was with a great sadness that I read on facebook of the end of the Modern Scholar’s series as of the end of 2011. I look forward to the day when I can own several of the titles on Playaway or downloaded onto a hard drive and just listen to my heart’s content. (As I understand it, the titles will still be available through other websites, check recordedbooks.com for more info, I think.)

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