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You're listening to the partial examine life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

said on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 185 is something like what is heroism or what does the

Homeric ethic of hospitality have to teach us about ethics or maybe can you really ever go home again?

And we read the 2018 translation of Homer's Odyssey by Emily Wilson,

the original being composed probably somewhere around the 7th century BC.

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This is Mark Linton Meyer arriving early with rosy fingers in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Owen, away from home in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This is Dylan Casey sitting as a lion after eating a grazing ox with chest and jowls thick with

blood in Middleton, Wisconsin. This is Emily Wilson sitting not at my loom, but at my computer,

and rainy for the delp. I think you're the first guest to ever improv to make that kind of

introduction, Emily. Well, welcome Emily. We're tickled pink to have you on here.

Thank you for having me and delighted to be here. I've been highly enjoying your version of the

Odyssey. As you point out, we kind of associate its classical literature. So it should sound

stilted. It should sound formal. It should sound like Shakespeare or something is kind of what we

think. But no, this is so classical. It is so far from Shakespeare. So there's no point in

having a translation sound archaic. You might as well have it sound modern because that's

equally distant from the original as the archaic versions that we're sort of used to.

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