{"id":223,"date":"2016-07-20T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2016-08-16T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T21:28:34","slug":"lowrie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/lowrie","title":{"rendered":"Mich\u00e8le Lowrie \u2013 Memorial Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Remarks by Mich\u00e8le Lowrie<br \/>\nSeth Benardete Memorial Service, February 1, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Seth Benardete turned back to Homer, forty years after writing his dissertation on the <i>Iliad,<\/i> he found the pivotal moment of the\u00a0<em>Odyssey<\/em> in Odysseus\u2019 rejection of immortality, which is somehow his destiny and his deliberate choice at once \u2014 and which expressed, in Benardete\u2019s understanding, the core of what it is to be human.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to read to you from the fifth book of the <em>Odyssey<\/em> and I\u2019ll start with Odysseus\u2019 response to Calypso \u2014 a few lines in Greek, and then I\u2019ll read a few pages from Mandelbaum\u2019s translation to put these lines in context.<\/p>\n<p>[Prof. Lowrie read in Greek: <em>Odyssey<\/em>, 5.214-225, in the Oxford Classical Text, ed. Thomas W. Allen.]<\/p>\n<p>[Prof. Lowrie read in English: pages 97-102 from the Mandelbaum (Penguin Classic) translation of <em>Odyssey<\/em> 5.77-225, from \u201cCalypso, brightest goddess, seeing Hermes&#8230;\u201d through \u201cThese were his words. The sun sank. Darkness came.\u201d] <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/memorial-service\/\">Back<\/a> to other memorial tributes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks by Mich\u00e8le Lowrie Seth Benardete Memorial Service, February 1, 2002 When Seth Benardete turned back to Homer, forty years after writing his dissertation on the Iliad, he found the pivotal moment of the\u00a0Odyssey in Odysseus\u2019 rejection of immortality, which is somehow his destiny and his deliberate choice at once \u2014 and which expressed, in Benardete\u2019s understanding, the core of what it is to be human. I\u2019m going to read to you from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/lowrie\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mich\u00e8le Lowrie \u2013 Memorial Tribute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benardetearchive.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}