MBC-012-THE ODYSSEY by Homer
Feb 10, 2021•27 min•Ep. 12
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Episode description
Guest: Emily Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad. Her area of expertise is emotion in the ancient world.
Show Notes: Greek concepts of Hell [3:45]
Repeating patterns of grief giving rise to anger [5:30]
Digging into the character of Odysseus [14:20]
Alice Oswald's Memorial as powerful excavation of Homer [16:450
Contemporary echoes of Electra [18:00]
Jonathan Shay on Homer, PTSD, and Vietnam [20:00]
Professor Austin's Odyssey translation recommendation: Robert Fitzgerald
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