Telling Stories/Framing the Questions

Synopsis: Part 1: ‘Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of them All’ is a sequence designed to compare and contrast with the original, but looks at the art of storytelling as well as at ‘the story’. ‘Storytelling at Kensington Palace’ shows a storytelling session for primary school children. ‘Indian Storytelling’ presents possible areas of comparison between this oral traditiona dn the evidence for storytelling within the Homeric texts. The next two sequences looks at one of the specific foumulae of the ‘Odyssey’: lying tales - and the question of truth and fiction.
Part 2 places the archaeological site of Troy geographically and topographically; interviews Professor Manfred Korfmann about Troy’s topographic significance; considers the post-World War 2 excavation of Old Smyrna that still continues; discusses the associations between archaeology and poetry.
Series: Homer: Poetry and Society, Course A295
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 119 min.
Year of production: 1993
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION; 1994 sale: £80.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Uses: Undergraduate classical studies; classical literatureand archaeology.
Subjects: Archaeology; Classical studies; English language and literature
Keywords: Greece - classical; Homer; poetry; storytelling

Director

Mags Noble

Producer

Tony Coe

Cast

Chris Emlyn Jones

Title: Telling stories
Synopsis: Part 1: 'Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of them All' is a sequence designed to compare and contrast with the original, but looks at the art of storytelling as well as at 'the story'. 'Storytelling at Kensington Palace' shows a storytelling session for primar
Title: Framing the questions
Synopsis: Part 2 places the archaeological site of Troy geographically and topographically; interviews Professor Manfred Korfmann about Troy's topographic significance; considers the post-World War 2 excavation of Old Smyrna that still continues; discusses the asso

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