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An opportunity for the audience to have their say on In Our Time. |
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THE AENEID
Robert Dumas (an American listening to the podcast
I'd just like to thank whoever it was at the BBC who came up with the idea of distributing a podcast of "In Our Time". It's incredibly enlightening--something which you certainly don't find on most of the radio stations here in New York--to hear about great history and culture in such a way. Keep podcasting; I'll keep listening!
CHARLIE FROM IN OUR TIME - THE AENEID
We ask our panel to suggest books each week, and you can find their recommendations in the Suject Research section of our website. For The Aeneid they suggested David West's translation, published by Penguin.
the Aeneid - a question
What do you or the panel believe is the best translation into English?
Peter Bolt;Melvyns Grammar School
What I want to know is; Who is or was Nelson Tomlinson and why did he have a Grammar School named after him. I can just imagine someone saying "I went to the Nelson Tomlinson Grammar School in Wigton !"
Bill Mann - Aeneid and slog at NT Grammar
Melvyn's memories of the pain of the Latin lesson at Nelson Tomlinson must have a resonance for those of us in that age group, when pain was the motivator and memorising the translations was the solution.Why, oh why, could the Latin lesson not be more like In Our Time. In some ways I'm glad it wasn't. To be subjected to this amount of motivation every Thurs at 9.00 is too much. I've got a week to get through the Aeneid (in the white heat of enthusiam) before Perception on 28th when no doubt Hume is going to have a major part to play; Hume that 18th cent Scots guru that no Scots kids know about because, as one educationist told me, he's too difficult. Well that's the difference between education in the early 60's and now. Difficulty in those days was not a criterion even if a major part of the 'slog' was in the presentation. But as Melvyn has experienced, it has created a hunger, and it's only now that it's being sated. The cup brimmeth over and the only worry is, what time is left to enjoy. Yes, youth is really wasted on the young. In Our Time does not seem to be for kids. So even if it were there in the early 60's would we have bothered the slightest bit about it? If a teacher in the 60's had told me that Vergil wanted to destroy his unfinished work, my attitude to him might have been entirely different.
Helen Horton, The Aenied
Unlike Melvyn I had a marvellous Latin teacher called Miss Boggis, she brought the Aeneid to life from day one and made it one of the most exiting stories we ever heard. We actually looked forward to the translating the next "episode". Sadly, now, much of what I learnt at that time is gone, lost down the intervening 28 years, but I still remember the feelings it evoked and the connection it gave to people who lived so long ago. I missed the programme but will listen later on the internet and perhaps it will inspire me to brush up my Virgil!
David Powell
An excellent programme, and one which has revived my desire to get out those two volumes of Loeb and get stuck in again. I never shone at Latin, but I did it to A level because of my other subject choices. I remember quite vividly sitting in an exam trying to translate a passage from the Aeneid, and marvelling (there is no other word) at the beauty of a description of the river Tiber. Long may "In our time" prosper! That could sound good translated into Latin!
Virgil
I was greatly surprised this morning to hear you discussing The Aeneid on account of the night before I was reading the very same book. Previously I'd avoided it as I remember so clearly it being regarded as nothing but a piece of Augustan (imperial) propoganda and I was feeling slightly quilty because I was enjoying the read! So thanks for your insight this morning it was joy to hear how Virgil is still influential.
Mike Belbin - The Aeneid
Another stimulating and all-too-short programme today on the quest of the immigrant Aeneus for a welcoming host country. You had a good mix of guest speakers and managed to give at least a mention to most of the controversies surrounding the poem. Good going. As a member of the Virgil Society (est.1942), I'm always interested in how the media approaches this poet and that epic. If Mr Bragg, or anyone else, is interested in the work of the Virgil Society and its Journal, the Proceedings, Our web page The virgil society is available on the site sas.ac.uk/icls. Thsi contains our progamme of meetings.
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