By R.C.
Sun, Oct 20, 2019 4:32 p.m.
"The Trilliad": Professor puts modern-day spin on ancient classic by rapping "The Iliad"
https://classics.osu.edu/people/bourgeois.23
"The Trilliad": Professor puts modern-day spin on ancient classic by rapping "The Iliad"
 | University of Southern California classics professor Brandon Bourgeois has translated Homer's Greek classic, "The Iliad," for students in the 21st century. Bourgeois rapped the epic poem during ... www.fox5dc.com |
| | Education. PhD, Classics (Greek and Latin), OSU (2018) MA, Classics (Greek and Latin), OSU (2013) BA, Classics, The University of Chicago (2008) classics.osu.edu |
R.C.: The Chinese have nukes.
We have this guy.
We are doomed.
3 comments:
"Inspired" and "rap" are two words which don't belong in the same paragraph,as in,"I was inspired to turn 'The Iliad' into rap."
That's not inspiration...
...but I,however,am totally,100% inspired not to give a fu*k about the nig professor being "inspired".
--GRA
They will say the ancient Greeks were colored folks. At the least the Greeks stole what they knew from the ancient Egyptians who were black folks. Al Sharpton said so himself.
You actually have to be somewhat impressed with the professor. For a colored man to be a classical scholar is very unusual. That classics is not easy.
Someone will suggest his brain power could have better been used to study the African classics. Whatever that is?
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