6/22/2023 0 Comments Iliade by Homer![]() ![]() Haupt was encouraged by her classical mythology professor to read at the event. “My favorite part of classical mythology is how all the stories connect to each other,” Caden Haupt, a first-year student studying secondary education and math, says. To promote the event, some professors offered extra credit for students willing to take time out of their day to read. Homerathon encouraged passersby to join in the event and read a section of the story in order to keep a constant flow of reading over the 12-hour period. “I was a first-year student the last time we did this event,” she says. Gillian Marbury, a fifth-year student studying ancient civilizations and classical languages, is on the executive board for Eta Sigma Phi and helped organize the event. The event was held by the classics department, national undergraduate honors society for ancient studies Eta Sigma Phi, and the Classics Honors Society. ![]() to 9 p.m., consisting of five-minute intervals of reading from many volunteers. In late April, it hosted its first in-person reading after a hiatus. The Department of Classics, housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has held this tradition year after year, but took a break during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Cleary Walkway in April-Homerathon, the 12-hour reading of all 24 books of Homer’s Iliad, one of the author’s two great epics written in dactylic hexameter. ![]()
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