Reading and Teaching The Odyssey

–Lecture 1 by St. John’s College tutor Eva Brann on “How to Read Homer”
–Interview with veteran St. John’s tutor Eva Brann
–Interview with St. John’s tutor Hannah Hintz
–Lecture 2 by Hannah Hintze: “The Leaf Bed”
–Live Seminar 1 on The Odyssey
—Lecture 3 by Hannah Hintze: “To Hades and Back Again”
–Post-lecture interview with Hannah Hintze
–Live Seminar 2 on The Odyssey
–Lecture 4 by Hannah Hintze: “The Cattle of the Sun”
–Post-lecture interview with Hannah Hintze
–Live Seminar 3 on The Odyssey
–Live Seminar 4 on The Odyssey
–Post-seminar interview with Hannah Hintze

Eva Brann, PhD, tutor at St. John’s College (for over 60 years!): BA, Brooklyn College, 1950; MA, 1951, PhD 1956, Yale University; Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, Summer, 1952; Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1952–53; Member of the staff of the American Agora Excavations at Athens as Sibley Fellow of Phi Beta Kappa; Instructor in Archeology, Stanford University, 1956–57; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1958–59; Member, US Advisory Commission for International Education and Cultural Affairs, 1975–77; Tutor, St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1957–present; Addison E. Mullikin Tutorship, 1971–present; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1976–77; Arnold Visiting Professor, Whitman College, 1978–79; Visiting Scholar in Honors Education, University of Delaware, 1984–86; Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987–88; Member, Maryland Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1988–96; Dean, St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1990–97; Doctor of Humane Letters, Whitman College, 1995; Doctor of Letters, Middlebury College, 1999; Wilbur Cross Medal of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association, 2006; Honorary Doctorate, Iona College, 2006; Distinguished Alumna Award, Brooklyn College, 2007; Russell Kirk Paideia Prize, 2014.

Hannah Hintze, PhD, tutor at St. John’s College: BMus, Woodwind Performance, BA, Philosophy, Boston University, 1999; MA, 2006; PhD 2009, The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago; Arthur J. Ennis Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Villanova University, 2010–11; Tutor, St. John’s College, Annapolis, 2011–present.

 

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