Duel Between Paris And Menelaus, The; Helen and Aphrodite
Description:
In this second episode, "Professor and Lowell Television Lecturer at Harvard University" I. A. Richards reads from the third book of his abridged translation of the Iliad, The Wrath of Achilles. Richards begins with the contrast between the bleak Greek camps and domestic unity of Troy. He moves on to situating the key characters identified in the episode title and to reading portions of the Iliad. The primary camera set-up has Richards reading directly to the camera in close-up and medium close-up. A secondary set-up presents Richards and enlarged images of the statues in the same frame. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by John Marx & Mark Cooper. Based on the 1958 book The Wrath of Achilles, The Iliad of Homer by I.A. Richards.
