Conversations: Singing the Blues of Achilles, the Modern Homeric Bard Joe Goodkin

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with Joe Goodkin, the modern Homeric Bard, about his work's Joe's Odyssey and the Blues of Achilles. They chat Homeric epics and the field of Classics. Follow Joe on Twitter here, and visit the websites mentioned: Joe's Odyssey, the Blues of Achilles, and JoeGoodkin.com.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

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1:00.9	I am your host, Liv.
1:02.9	I am here today with a really, I mean, I suppose it's just got a bonus bit that makes it a very
1:09.6	different style of conversation episode.
1:13.0	I sat down with Joe Goodkin, who is a musician, who is basically a modern, Homeric bard.
1:20.5	He has written, like, full albums worth of songs dedicated to the Iliad and the Odyssey,
1:27.2	and they are fascinating and beautiful and emotional and stunningly beautiful work.
1:36.1	Joe and I talked about Homer broadly.
1:39.4	I mean, Homer as a person, as a concept.
1:43.0	We talked with the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Odyssey in a little more detail because
1:47.9	how could we not?
1:49.4	We talked about learning ancient Greek and just generally the classics as a spiel of study
1:57.0	as a thing that we both interact with and have made our careers out of in a way that
2:02.4	isn't academia and what that brings to the table when it comes to classics.
2:07.5	Honestly, it was a really great conversation.
2:10.3	It was just really fun and then at the end, Joe performs one of his songs, which I mean,
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