The Singer of Tales / BBC Worldwide Ltd.

In this Part 3 of the BBC series "In Search of the Trojan War," Michael Woods searches for historic evidence of the Trojan War described by the blind bard Homer 500 years after the event. He visits Bronze Age ruins of places listed in the Catalogue of Ships, and enlists a Gaelic story-teller and a p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Films on Demand. In search of the Trojan War.
Corporate Authors:	BBC Worldwide Ltd Infobase (Film distributor)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Worldwide Ltd, [1985]
Series:	Films on Demand. In search of the Trojan War.
Subjects:	Homer. Civilization, Homeric. Trojan War. Troy (Extinct city) Internet videos.
Genre:	Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (55 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color.
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Introduction: Military Resonance of "The Iliad" (3:48)
From Oral Saga to Written Text (4:11)
Irish Story Teller (4:56)
Professional Bards in Turkish Armenia (4:54)
Memory Aids of Professional Bards (2:01)
Transmission of Oral Tradition (2:35)
Bardic Memory from Before Homer (5:02)
Homer's Bronze Age Warriors (4:13)
Gallipoli Monument at Cape Helles (2:57)
Homer's Catalogue of Ships (3:12)
Search for Homer's Thisbe (2:30)
Search for Places in the Catalogue of Ships (4:08)
Iphigenia at Aulis (4:23)
Objection to Deniers of the Historic Trojan War (2:46)
Credits: The Singer of Tales (1:23)