Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey Book IX
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
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🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Liv reads Book IX of Homer's Odyssey, translated into prose by Samuel Butler. Odysseus tells the story of he and his men arriving on the island of the Cyclopes.
This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's simply a bonus reading of Homer. For regular episodes look for any that don't have "Liv Reads..." in the title!
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| 0:00.0 | The episode you're about to listen to is a reading of Homer. |
| 0:09.2 | For regular episodes of the podcast, check out any of the numbered episodes in the feed. Hello, this is, let's talk about myths baby, and I'm your host, Live, here with another episode of The Odyssey. |
| 0:35.0 | Odysseus. |
| 0:37.0 | Anyway, the further we get into the Odyssey, the more excited I am to just straight up read it. |
| 0:42.0 | Plus, I'm reading a bunch of these in advance for myself to make my life easier but also because I personally can't get enough of Odysseus. The man is, I, ridiculous, sure, problematic, absolutely. Do I love him desperately? Of course I do. |
| 1:00.0 | Now today's episode starts directly after where the last one ended to the point of Odysseus just answering a question, so just a reminder, |
| 1:10.0 | he's just been asked who he is and that Bard is singing about the Trojan War, lots of suspense. |
| 1:18.0 | This is Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, book 9. |
| 1:27.0 | And Odysseus answered, |
| 1:29.0 | King Al Sinuous, it is a good thing to hear a Bard with such a divine voice as this man has. |
| 1:35.9 | There is nothing better or more delightful than when a whole people make merry together, with |
| 1:41.0 | the guests sitting orderly to listen while the table is loaded with |
| 1:45.3 | bread and meets and the cupbearer draws wine and fills his cup for every man. |
| 1:58.0 | This is indeed as fair a sight as a man can see. Now, however, since you are inclined to ask the story of my sorrows and rekindle my own sad memories in respect of them. I do not know how to begin, nor yet how to continue and |
| 2:08.7 | conclude my tale, for the hand of heaven has been laid heavily upon me. |
| 2:15.0 | Firstly then, I will tell you my name that you too may know it, and one day if I outlive |
| 2:20.2 | this time of sorrow may become my guests though I live so far away from all of you. |
| 2:26.6 | I am Odysseus son of Lerties renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety so that my fame ascends to heaven. |
| 2:36.4 | I live in Ithaca where there is a high mountain called Nerechum covered with forests and not far from it there is a group of islands very near to one |
| 2:46.1 | another. |
| 2:47.1 | Delicium, Sami and the wooded island of Zekinthus. |
| 2:51.5 | It lies squat on the horizon, all highest up in the sea towards the |
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