A Perpetual Feast

Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. Here in the final episode of season 2, Wes and Andrew consider the ongoing feast that the Iliad offers, focusing in particular on Homer's use of time in the poem, as well as the larger arc of the story. ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.6, Wes and Andrew chat about the final books of the Iliad. They discuss the tragedy of the ancient worldview, how much credit Hector deserves, Zeus's meddling, and more. ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

A Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.6, Wes and Andrew chat about the result's of Agamemnon's leadership (or lack thereof). ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

A Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.5, Wes and Andrew chat about Achilles' ongoing rage, and how it evolves in the middle portion of the book, especially in Book 16. ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

A Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.4, Wes and Andrew discuss the structure of the Iliad, tracing whether it really makes sense to understand the book in three parts, as is traditionally done. ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

A Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.3, Wes and Andrew attempt to define what a hero is - using Homer's models as their guide. ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

A Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.1, Wes and Andrew discuss the unique challenges and goals that accompany the act and art of translation. Well, that's one of the things they discuss anyway.  ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

A Perpetual Feast is back for season 2! Join Wes Callihan and Andrew Kern as they continue to work through the incredible beauty and wonderful challenges that Homer's work offers. In episode 2.1, Wes and Andrew introduce the new format, discuss their goals for the season, and review some of the ideas they covered in previous episodes. ***This season of A Perpetual Feast is presented by Roman Roads Media, purveyors of fine classical education curricula, including the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

Welcome to episode 12 of A Perpetual Feast, where Andrew Kern and Wes Callihan discuss Homer and all of the things that Homer makes them think about. In this episode, they discuss the importance of the setting in the Iliad, Christ fulfillment of the Greek ideals, and much more. This episode is brought to you by our good friends at New College Franklin. Set up a campus visit now!