Are you a traveler or a pirate?

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. Professor Lionel I. Casson from the Classics Department of Washington Square College of New York Universit...

Are you a traveler or a pirate?
Release date	1956

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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.

Contributors

IUL Genres

Educational;Historical

IUL Subject

Piracy.