Literature and history

come. Hello and welcome to literature and history. Episode 12, Claios and Nostos.

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Polon d'anthrope on

e'nastia,

Kaino on e'n'n'

n'er,

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and Numinos, he's not even

the psehain Kainoston Hetiron.

Tell me about a complicated man.

Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went and who he met, the pain

he suffered in the storms at sea, and how he worked to save his life and bring his men back home.

Those were the opening lines of Homer's Odyssey.

In Homeric Greek, read by Lantern Jack of the ancient Greece

declassified podcast, and then in English from the Emily Wilson translation, published by Norton

in 2017. In this episode we're going to venture

into the boundless world of Homer's Odyssey. This classic of world literature a sequel to Homer's Iliad, is about the long difficult

homeward journey of the Greek hero Odysseus.

The Trojan War, after ten long years, has ended.

And Odysseus, the Hero of the Odyssey, journeys for nearly 10 more years,

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