Homer’s Illiad

This all-discussion course will follow a close reading of The Iliad as a piece of literature, focusing on structure, narrative techniques, shifting points of view, ethical and cultural implications. 

Homer, The Iliad, Emily Wilson, translator, ISBN ‎978-1324001805.

​Richard Heitman has taught classical literature and especially Homer for many years at the college level. For Midcoast Senior College, he has taught a course on Homer’s Odyssey and Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War.