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In \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer''s epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face at their own hearth for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus, with his father Odysseus at his side, boldly confronts the angry suitors; Achilles gives way to boundless grief at the death of his friend Patroclus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEva Brann demonstrates a way of reading Homer''s poems that yields up their hidden treasures. With an alert eye for Homer''s extraordinary visual effects and a keen ear for the musicality of his language, she helps the reader see the flickering campfires of the Greeks and hear the roar of the surf and the singing of nymphs. In \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e, Brann takes readers beneath the captivating surface of the poems to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics \"the marvel of the ages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e is a feast for the mind and the imagination, laid out in clear and delicious prose. With Brann, old friends of Homer and new acquaintances alike will rejoice in the beauty, and above all the humanity, of the epics.\" --Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e, Eva Brann lovingly leads us, as she has surely led countless students, through the gallery of delights that is Homer''s poetry. Brann''s enthusiasm is as infectious as her deep familiarity with the works is illuminating.\"--Rachel Hadas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Brann invites us to enter a conversation [about Homer] in which information and formal arguments jostle with appreciations and frank conjectures and surmises to increase our pleasure and deepen the inward dimension of our humanity.\"--Richard Freis, Millsaps College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For anyone eager to experience the profundity and charm of Homer''s great epic poems, Eva Brann''s book will serve as a passionate and engaging guide. Brann displays a deep sensitivity to the cadence and flow of Homeric poetry, and the kind of knowing intimacy with its characters that comes from years of teaching and contemplation. Her relaxed but informative approach succeeds in conveying the grandeur of the great Homeric heroes, while making them continually resonate for our own lives. Brann helps us see that this poetry has an urgency for our own era as much as it did for a distant past.\"--Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Author of \u003ci\u003eOld Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Iambographic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The most enjoyable books about Homer are always written by those who have read and taught him the most. Eva Brann''s collection of astute observations, unusual asides, and visual snapshots of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a lifelong friendship with the poet, and is as pleasurable as it is informative. \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e is rare erudition without pedantry, in a tone marked by good sense without levity.\"--Victor Davis Hanson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Greeks\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eWho Killed Homer?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEva Brann\u003c\/b\u003e is a member of the senior faculty at St. John''s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. 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She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians and the peoples who constituted their empire--and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the Greek center)--Herodotus delineates the essential difference between the Barbarians and the Greeks. This difference Brann calls Athens' elusive essence, its \u003ci\u003efreedom\u003c\/i\u003e contrasting with the slavery upon which the Persian empire depended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the second essay, the author delves into what it means for a person to unite a disposition toward conservatism with a capacity to reiterate and rehearse events, scenes, and dramas in the conservatory of the imagination. 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