Understanding Dactylic Hexameter

Understanding Dactylic Hexameter

Streaming video - 2016

Read the first five lines of Homer’s Iliad, focusing on vocabulary and grammar. Then investigate the quality that makes Homer a great poet: his use of sound and meter. Homer composed in dactylic hexameter, which was used throughout antiquity. Learn the rules that govern this epic meter.

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Subjects
English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
Educational films.
Genres
Educational films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2016.
2017.
Language
English
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A Kanopy streaming video
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time
00:29:04
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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