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The Eric Metaxas Show

Emily Wilson - Part 2

The Eric Metaxas Show

Salem Podcast Network

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Christianity, News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Classicist Emily Wilson continues her in-studio i…

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show!

0:12.4

I'm proud to say Eric made me who I am today.

0:15.2

A man who lives in a car wash and goes by the name Uncle Sonsi Wudzi.

0:18.4

And now your host, Eric Mataxas.

0:20.4

Wow.

0:21.4

I'm so sorry, Todd.

0:23.4

I'll make it up to you.

0:25.8

Folks, this is the Eric Mataxas Show.

0:27.8

And in this hour, I get to continue my conversation with Emily Wilson.

0:32.6

Emily has translated the Odyssey of Homer into English.

0:38.6

Do I need to say anything else, Emily?

0:40.4

Welcome to the program.

0:41.4

Thank you, Eric.

0:42.4

We were talking in the last hour about how different scholars over the years have

0:50.6

supposed that parts of the Odyssey were written at different times that they weren't

0:57.0

written.

0:58.0

I mean, one thing we have to be clear on, of course, is that when you're talking about

1:02.3

the time of Shakespeare or Milton or even Virgil, they could sit down and write something.

1:09.4

That's very different from the way we suppose the Iliad and the Odyssey came into being,

1:15.2

because we say that it comes from a time that's pre-literate, pre-literary.

1:19.8

Well, it can't come from a pre-literary time because it's a literate text, right?

1:23.8

So it comes at the dawn of literacy in, okay, Greece.

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