Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Assassins' Creed II was widely hailed as a dramatic improvement over the first game, fixing many of its faults and delivering an overall better gameplay experience.  But Professor Kozlowski's take is…

Professor Kozlowski introduces his Fall 2022 reading project: working through the books of Ray Bradbury!  But why this writer, these books, this genre?  Bradbury is largely overlooked by academic cri…

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Professor Kozlowski examines the reception of Homer through the Middle Ages: in the Byzantine Empire, in the Islamicate World, and in Medieval Europe.  Along the way he'll discuss Christianity's diff…

Professor Kozlowski reluctantly addresses the epic poem regarded by the Medievals and Renaissance writers as the greatest ever written - Virgil's Aeneid.  Does Virgil deserve this legacy, or is the p…

Professor Kozlowski examines the complicated relationship between Rome and Homer, from Rome's origins as a melting pot of cultures defined and informed by Homeric epic, to insatiable need to distance…

Enough of this history nonsense.  Professor Kozlowski returns to form with a deep-dive examination of Euripides' The Trojan Women, looking especially at the way Euripides uses (and abuses) Homeric fo…

Professor Kozlowski finally reaches the Classical Age of Greece, lightly sketching the role of Homer's epics in the development of Greek culture, including the self-identity of city-states like Athen…

Professor Kozlowski contextualizes the writings of Homer according to the archaeological and historical evidence of the Greek culture from its earliest origins in the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean …

Professor Kozlowski lightly examines the archaeological excavations in Hisarlik, considered by the academic community to be the most likely site of Ancient Troy, in order to discuss how much of Homer…

Professor Kozlowski continues his examination of the Odyssey as Odysseus' crew (and the gods) betray him into destroying his ship, as he finally reaches his homeland of Ithaca, and as he tests (and i…

Professor Kozlowski follows the narrated adventures of Odysseus through the first three books of his four-book narration.  Highlights include cannibal cyclopes, bad crew behavior, drugs, good and bad…

Professor Kozlowski embarks on a grand (if heavily abridged) journey through the Odyssey.  Now including exclusive footage of Helen of Troy restored to Sparta and acting especially...strangely.

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Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of the Iliad with some aimless ruminating, a recap of the Patroclus Memorial Olympics, some more shade on Achilles, and the restoration of Hector's body t…

Professor Kozlowski follows the genocidal Achilles as he cuts his way through the entire Trojan army, at least one god, and his own personal shortcomings...or not.

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Professor Kozlowski explores one of the most thematically-rich portions of the Iliad, examining the hubris of Hector, the transformation of Achilles' rage, and the famous (and ambiguous) Shield of Ac…

Professor Kozlowski finally gets back to Achilles and Patroclus as Patroclus marches off to war in Achilles' armor.  What could possibly go wrong?

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Professor Kozlowski continues his slog through the battle scenes of the Iliad - with a rapid-fire breakdown of twice the usual number of chapters (so he can discuss the research paper with his studen…

Professor Kozlowski slogs through the most boring part of the Iliad, and argues that the boring-ness is intentional and deliberate.  Still no less boring though.  OR IS IT?

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Professor Kozlowski follows the heroic exploits of Diomedes as he cuts his way through the Trojan lines (and a few gods to boot) before visiting Troy with Hector in one of the most famous (and heartb…