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you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelors with Professor Emily Wilson. Her new work is a translation into English

I amic pentameter of the Iliad by Homer and we're now looking at

inside the story we've been outside in the historical Troy we've talked about the

translations inside are characters that are vivid once you understand

their relationships. I said this is like a novel and professor, because I think like a novelist sometimes sometimes I've paired these characters for us to go through the

dramatous persona and most important at everybody hears about is Helen.

Helen and Paris Alexander, the abduction of Paris.

But Helen was also related to Menelaeus.

That was her husband back in Kia. So the relationship of Paris and Helen, you

obliged me in your note-taking to pay great attention to it and it is it is a rough relationship.

Helen is an ironic thinker when she's apart from Paris. What do we need to know

about Paris? That fascinated me that Helen understood him as her fate right now but not forever.

Absolutely, yes. I mean, according to the legends, of course Paris is going to, Paris is not going to survive the Trojan War and

Helen's going to be married after someone else before eventually rejoining her ex-husband Menelaus back in Sparta, which is where we find her in the Odyssey.

Helen is an extraordinary character in the Iliad because she has this perspective on the whole sequence of events of which she's apart. We see her weaving, which is the common

activity for elite women in the Homeric poems, is they're always weaving. But Helen

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