Are you a traveler or a pirate?

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Are you a traveler or a pirate? is a short film from 1956 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Discussion on this program centers around the ways of piracy in the ancient world of 1000 BC. With Professor Lionel I. Casson. Black and white.

Are you a traveler or a pirate?
Release date
1956
LanguageEnglish
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Subjects
Philosophy
Adult Education
Lecture
Violence
Seafaring
Summary
Discussion on this program centers around the ways of piracy in the ancient world of 1000 BC. Professor Lionel I. Casson from the Classics Department of Washington Square College of New York University presents readings from Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey” which illustrate that both Odysseus and Menelaus were pirates.
IUL Genres
Educational;Historical
IUL Subject
Piracy.